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New insights into the classification and nomenclature of cortical GABAergic interneurons
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A systematic classification and accepted nomenclature of neuron types is much needed but is currently lacking. This article describes a possible taxonomical solution for classifying GABAergic interneurons of the cerebral cortex based on a novel, web-based interactive system that allows experts to classify neurons with pre-determined criteria. Using Bayesian analysis and clustering algorithms on the resulting data, we investigated the suitability of several anatomical terms and neuron names for cortical GABAergic interneurons. Moreover, we show that supervised classification models could automatically categorize interneurons in agreement with experts' assignments. These results demonstrate a practical and objective approach to the naming, characterization and classification of neurons based on community consensus.
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“Chandelier INs, also known as axo-axonic neurons, are the most recognizable INs in terms of morphology (DeFelipe et al., 2013) due to the unique candlestick-like synaptic terminal arrays they form to specifically target the axon initial segment of pyramidal cells.”
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“an attempt to produce a systematic classification of neocortical INs based on morphological features alone by a large number of investigators showed that there are too many ambiguities for “experts” to agree on the identity of most IN subtypes when strictly relying on morphological data”
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- Authors
- DeFelipe, J., López-Cruz, P. L., Benavides-Piccione, R., Bielza, C., Larrañaga, P., Anderson, S., Burkhalter, A., Cauli, B., Fairén, A., Feldmeyer, D., Fishell, G., Fitzpatrick, D., Freund, T. F., González-Burgos, G., Hestrin, S., Hill, S., Hof, P. R., Huang, J., Jones, E. G., Kawaguchi, Y., Kisvárday, Z., Kubota, Y., Lewis, D. A., Marín, O., Markram, H., McBain, C. J., Meyer, H. S., Monyer, H., Nelson, S. B., Rockland, K., Rossier, J., Rubenstein, J. L. R., Rudy, B., Scanziani, M., Shepherd, G. M., Sherwood, C. C., Staiger, J. F., Tamás, G., Thomson, A., Wang, Y., Yuste, R., & Ascoli, G. A.
- Affiliations
- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES)
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (US)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Instituto de Neurociencias (ES)
- Forschungszentrum Jülich (DE)
- NYU Langone Health (US)
- Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (US)
- HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine (HU)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
- National Institute for Physiological Sciences (JP)
- University of Debrecen (HU)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (US)
- Technical University of Munich (DE)
- German Cancer Research Center (DE)
- Brandeis University (US)
- Boston University (US)
- Inserm (FR)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- New York University (US)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- Yale University (US)
- George Washington University (US)
- University of Göttingen (DE)
- University of Szeged (HU)
- UCL School of Pharmacy (GB)
- Wenzhou Medical University (CN)
- George Mason University (US)
- Corresponding author
- DeFelipe, Javier
- Larrañaga, Pedro
- Ascoli, Giorgio A.
- ORCID
- DeFelipe, Javier
- Bielza, Concha
- Larrañaga, Pedro
- Anderson, Stewart
- Burkhalter, Andreas
- Cauli, Bruno
- Feldmeyer, Dirk
- Fishell, Gord
- Freund, Tamás F.
- Hill, Sean
- Hof, Patrick R.
- Jones, Edward G.
- Kawaguchi, Yasuo
- Kisvárday, Zoltán
- Kubota, Yoshiyuki
- Lewis, David A.
- Markram, Henry
- McBain, Chris J.
- Meyer, Hanno S.
- Monyer, Hannah
- Nelson, Sacha B.
- Rockland, Kathleen
- Rossier, Jean
- Rubenstein, John L. R.
- Rudy, Bernardo
- Scanziani, Massimo
- Shepherd, Gordon M.
- Sherwood, Chet C.
- Staiger, Jochen F.
- Tamás, Gábor
- Yuste, Rafael
- Ascoli, Giorgio A.
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Neuroscience
- Published
- 2013-02-06
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 202-216
- ISSN
- 1471-003X (ISSN-L)
- 1471-0048
- PMC
- PMC3619199
- OpenAlex
- W1995031373
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- Funders
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (C04-04, TIN2010-20900-C04-04)
- National Institutes of Health (5r01ns030989-22)
- U.S. Public Health Service (R01-39600)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (21240030)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH043784)
- National Eye Institute (R01EY012114, R01EY011787)
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01DC009977, P01DC004732)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (P30DK063720)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01-NS030989, R01NS039600, R01NS075007)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biophysics › Cell Image Analysis Techniques
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Keywords
- GABAergic interneurons, cortical interneurons, neuron classification, cerebral cortex, neuronal morphology, Bayesian analysis, clustering algorithms, supervised classification, community consensus, taxonomy
- MeSH terms
- Algorithms, Animals, Bayes Theorem, Cerebral Cortex, gamma-Aminobutyric Acid, Humans, Interneurons, Terminology as Topic, Cluster Analysis
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