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Classification of electrophysiological and morphological neuron types in the mouse visual cortex
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Abstract
Understanding the diversity of cell types in the brain has been an enduring challenge and requires detailed characterization of individual neurons in multiple dimensions. To systematically profile morpho-electric properties of mammalian neurons, we established a single-cell characterization pipeline using standardized patch-clamp recordings in brain slices and biocytin-based neuronal reconstructions. We built a publicly accessible online database, the Allen Cell Types Database, to display these datasets. Intrinsic physiological properties were measured from 1,938 neurons from the adult laboratory mouse visual cortex, morphological properties were measured from 461 reconstructed neurons, and 452 neurons had both measurements available. Quantitative features were used to classify neurons into distinct types using unsupervised methods. We established a taxonomy of morphologically and electrophysiologically defined cell types for this region of the cortex, with 17 electrophysiological types, 38 morphological types and 46 morpho-electric types. There was good correspondence with previously defined transcriptomic cell types and subclasses using the same transgenic mouse lines. Gouwens et al. established a morpho-electrical taxonomy of cell types for the mouse visual cortex via unsupervised clustering analysis of multiple quantitative features from 1,938 neurons available online at the Allen Cell Types Database.
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This paper presents a standardized patch-clamp and biocytin-reconstruction pipeline to classify neurons in adult mouse visual cortex, yielding 17 electrophysiological types, 38 morphological types, and 46 joint morpho-electric types. The joint types align better with transcriptomic subclasses than either modality alone, and the data and tools are publicly released.
Key findings
- From 1,938 neurons passing electrophysiology QC (928 spiny/excitatory, 1,010 aspiny or sparsely spiny/inhibitory), 461 were reconstructed (254 spiny, 207 aspiny/sparsely spiny), and 452 had both modalities; unsupervised clustering identified 17 e-types (4 excitatory, 13 inhibitory), 38 m-types (19 spiny, 19 aspiny), and 46 me-types (20 excitatory, 26 inhibitory).
- Joint clustering produced 46 me-types rather than the 120 simple intersections of e-types and m-types, and these me-types showed stronger consistency with transcriptomic subclasses than e-types or m-types alone.
- Morphological features were more informative for excitatory me-types, while both electrophysiological and morphological features predicted many inhibitory me-types; selective transgenic line/layer combinations linked some me-types to specific transcriptomic types.
- The t-SNE projection separated excitatory and inhibitory cells and showed coherence by transgenic driver, with Pvalb, Sst, Vip, and Chat populations occupying related but distinct regions.
Methods
- Standardized in vitro pipeline: whole-cell current-clamp recordings from adult mouse visual cortex slices with biocytin-filled pipettes, fixed stimulus protocols (short and long current steps, ramps, noisy injections), quality-control criteria, transgenic Cre driver lines, and atlas mapping; most cells came from primary visual cortex (n=1,599).
- Electrophysiology features were reduced with sparse PCA and clustered using Gaussian mixture models with entropy-based merging and subsampling stability; morphology features from reconstructed dendrites and axons were clustered hierarchically with co-clustering; joint clustering combined both feature sets across multiple methods and weightings to derive consensus clusters.
- Transcriptomic correspondence was inferred using transgenic line/layer labels and prior FACS data from Tasic et al., with binary consistency scores for subclasses and selective line/layer combinations for transcriptomic types.
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- The authors state that electrophysiological results depend on their specific recording protocols and solutions; other protocols could reveal additional distinguishing features and require revising the taxonomy. They also note that their transgenic sampling strategy does not allow estimating relative proportions of cell types in the circuit, and they could not clearly link to the Sncg subclass, which they suspect was underrepresented.
- The authors acknowledge biases from chosen stimuli and quantified morphological features, and note that z-dimension-dependent morphological features were excluded because of slice z-compression, though they report that re-running clustering after volume restoration and alignment showed good agreement.
- Evident from the text: transgenic lines are imperfect proxies for transcriptomic identity, some me-types showed heterogeneity even among cells putatively from a single transcriptomic type, and morphological reconstructions were a selected subset rather than all recorded cells.
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“Chat cells, a subset of Vip cells12,25,26, were located within the broader region populated by the Vip cells near its border with excitatory cells.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > RESULTS > Electrophysiology classification
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- Supportedcites [12] Tasic, B. et al. Adult mouse cortical cell taxonomy revealed by single cell transcriptomics. Nat. Neurosci. 19, 335–346 (2016). source
The citation is attached to the identification of Chat cells as a subset of Vip cells, not to the citing authors’ observation about their position near excitatory cells. In “Cortical cell types: markers and relationships” (page unavailable), the source identifies a Vip-Chat transcriptomic type within the Vip major type and reports Chat expression in Vip-positive cells. (LLM, conf=0.91)
- Supportedcites [25] Gonchar, Y., Wang, Q. & Burkhalter, A. Multiple distinct subtypes of GABAergic neurons in mouse visual cortex identified by triple immunostaining. Front. Neuroanat. 1, 3 (2008). source
The Results section (‘PV-negative neurons fall into numerous discrete subgroups’; page unavailable) states that all ChAT neurons expressed VIP, while many VIP neurons lacked ChAT. This confirms the subset relationship to which the citation is attached. The sentence’s spatial description is not attributed to this citation. (LLM, conf=0.93)
- Supportedcites [26] von Engelhardt, J., Eliava, M., Meyer, A. H., Rozov, A. & Monyer, H. Functional characterization of intrinsic cholinergic interneurons in the cortex. J. Neurosci. 27, 5633–5642 (2007). source
The citation is attached to the statement that ChAT cells are a subset of VIP cells, not to the citing authors’ observation about their location. In the paper’s “ChAT and EGFP colocalize in the cortex with VIP and calretinin” section, 98% of ChAT-immunoreactive interneurons were VIP-immunoreactive, supporting that identification. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“Joint clustering based on combined electrophysiological and morphological data resulted in 46 me-types.”
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“morphological properties were measured from 461 reconstructed neurons”
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“Unsupervised clustering methods mapped neurons of the adult mouse visual cortex to 17 distinct electrophysiological or e-types and 38 morphological or m-types.”
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“Intrinsic physiological properties were measured from 1,938 neurons from the adult laboratory mouse visual cortex”
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“452 neurons had both measurements available”
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“The use of transgenic labels established preliminary correspondences with major transcriptomic subclasses and specific transcriptomic types.”
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“found good correspondence with previously-defined transcriptomic cell types and subclasses using the same transgenic mouse lines”
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“This confirmed that morphological features were more distinguishing for excitatory me-type classification, while both electrophysiological and morphological features could accurately predict many inhibitory me-types.”
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“Certain inhibitory m-types (e.g. Aspiny_4, Aspiny_8) were distributed across multiple me-types due to differences in electrophysiological properties.”
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“each one was not entirely homogeneous”
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“In some cases, there appeared to be a one-to-several correspondence between t-types and me-types (and vice versa).”
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“When we examined the composition of these me-types in terms of unimodal e- or m-types, most me-types appeared relatively homogeneous.”
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“The shape of the membrane potential trajectory during the interspike interval (ISI) also varied significantly across cells.”
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“Our results here were largely in agreement with cell-type classifications based on slice electrophysiology presented in previous studies in the same area and related areas and species6,8,29”
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- Not checked yetcites [6] Markram, H. et al. Reconstruction and simulation of neocortical microcircuitry. Cell 163, 456–492 (2015). source
- Not checked yetcites [8] Druckmann, S., Hill, S., Schürmann, F., Markram, H. & Segev, I. A hierarchical structure of cortical interneuron electrical diversity revealed by automated statistical analysis. Cereb. Cortex 23, 2994–3006 (2013). source
- Not checked yetcites [29] Markram, H. et al. Interneurons of the neocortical inhibitory system. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 5, 793–807 (2004). source
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“The projection separated the spiny excitatory neurons from the aspiny/sparsely spiny inhibitory neurons reasonably well”
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“The 17 e-types identified by the GMM in higher-dimensional sPCA spaces were largely coherent in the t-SNE projection as well”
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“we were nevertheless able to identify a subset of transgenic line and layer combinations that were each selective for a small number of transcriptomic types (t-types, Fig. 7).”
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“The me-types and, to a lesser extent, m-types were found in consistent locations in the electrophysiological projection (Fig. 6d-e, Supplementary Figs. 23 and 31).”
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“We reconstructed the morphologies (Methods) of 461 cells (254 spiny and 207 aspiny/sparsely spiny).”
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“In addition, the classifiers generally made fewer errors predicting me-types associated with different transcriptomic subclasses, further supporting the proposed organization of me-types.”
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“Inhibitory e-types were more diverse than their excitatory counterparts.”
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“The majority of spiny m-types were distinguished based on their relative soma depth, the size and extent of their apical dendrite, particularly the apical tuft, and the relative distribution of the basal dendrites”
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“populations of cells defined by certain transgenic drivers were also relatively coherent in this projection”
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“The number of me-types from this analysis (46 total) was substantially smaller than the number of e-type/m-type combinations observed by a simple intersection of both unimodal classifications (120 total”
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“sets of cells labeled by a given transgenic lines in some cases appear near each other but separated from cells labeled by other lines, even within the same e-type”
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“These markers label largely mutually-exclusive subclasses of interneurons2,12, and we likewise saw relatively little overlap in the t-SNE projection.”
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- Not checked yetcites [2] Tremblay, R., Lee, S. & Rudy, B. GABAergic interneurons in the neocortex: from cellular properties to circuits. Neuron 91, 260–292 (2016). source
- Not checked yetcites [12] Tasic, B. et al. Adult mouse cortical cell taxonomy revealed by single cell transcriptomics. Nat. Neurosci. 19, 335–346 (2016). source
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“which found that components derived from AP width and instantaneous firing rate had higher relative feature importances”
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“We found 20 excitatory clusters and 26 inhibitory clusters, or me-types”
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“For example, the cells in L4 labeled by the Nr5a1-Cre line are predominantly of a single t-type (Fig 7a, 96% in one type)”
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“The 19 spiny, excitatory m-types (Fig. 3, Supplementary Figs. 18-19, Supplementary Spreadsheet 1) were distributed across layers (L) 2/3-L6b”
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“the large excitatory e-type Exc_3 was divided across many excitatory me-types”
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“This confirmed that morphological features were more distinguishing for excitatory me-type classification, while both electrophysiological and morphological features could accurately predict many inhibitory me-types.”
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“Specific e-types differed from each other across a variety of characteristics, including firing patterns (e.g., adapting, irregular, transient), AP shape, subthreshold properties (membrane time constant, sag), and f-I curve location and shape.”
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“For example, several me-types were observed among L4 Nr5a1-labeled neurons, suggesting some heterogeneity within the single t-type L4-IT-Rspo1 (Fig. 7a).”
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“Across cells, firing rates at 100 pA above rheobase rarely exceeded 30 spikes/s.”
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“the t-SNE projection was fairly robust to feature removal”
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“The Nkx2-1 line labeled several relatively specific populations.”
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“this data production enabled the combined analysis of over 1,900 patch-clamp recordings.”
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“morphological features capture the diversity of most excitatory cells more clearly than electrophysiological ones”
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“The distribution of these CVs was bimodal, with a large, narrow peak at low CV values (considered to represent firing at a relatively constant rate) and a wide peak at higher CV values. The minimum value of between these peaks was found at CV = 0.18.”
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“We find that the ability of each modality to predict me-types varies across subclasses (Supplementary Fig. 31)”
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“the cells labeled were in neighboring yet offset locations in the t-SNE projection (see also Supplementary Fig. 31)”
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“We note that we are not yet able to establish clear links to the recently described Sncg inhibitory subclass14”
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- Not checked yetcites [14] Tasic, B. et al. Shared and distinct transcriptomic cell types across neocortical areas. Nature 563, 72–78 (2018). source
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“Interestingly, we also observe some degree of heterogeneity in me-types even among cells putatively from a single t-type (see, for example, Fig. 7a).”
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“while we had a small number of such cells with both morphology and electrophysiological data, the location in the t-SNE projection was tight and consistent with the me-type observed (Fig. 7j).”
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“While we were only able to perform this analysis for a limited set of t-types, we found that we could make relatively specific correspondences with me-types in most of those cases.”
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“that showed strong correlation with transcriptomically defined neuronal subclasses and types.”
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“while electrophysiological features clearly identify different L6 interneurons from Lamp5, Pvalb, and Sst subclasses that have similar dendritic and axonal arbors.”
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“In L1-L4, the line is associated mostly with the Pvalb-Vipr2 type (expected to be chandelier cells14) and the Pvalb-Tpbg type (Fig. 7i).”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > RESULTS > Correspondence with specific transcriptomic types
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- Not checked yetcites [14] Tasic, B. et al. Shared and distinct transcriptomic cell types across neocortical areas. Nature 563, 72–78 (2018). source
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“In L5-L6, the Nkx2-1-labeled cells are mostly associated with the Lamp5-Lhx6 t-type”
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“The me-types we identified are better correlated with excitatory and inhibitory subclasses and types defined conventionally or by molecular identities than each modality separately (Figs. 5-7)”
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“Among inhibitory neurons, neurons labeled by Ndnf in L1, associated with a handful of Lamp5 t-types, had one of two me-types (ME_Inh_17 and 18, Fig. 7f).”
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“The L2/3 Chat-labeled neurons, mostly associated with the Vip-Ptprt-Pkp2 t-type, were in a few similar me-types (Fig. 7g).”
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“L6 Ntsr1-labeled neurons (linked to four related L6 CT t-types) labeled a set of me-types with similar electrophysiological features (Fig. 7e).”
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“Quantitative features were used to classify neurons into distinct types using unsupervised methods.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > Abstract
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“we established a single cell characterization pipeline using standardized patch clamp recordings in brain slices and biocytin-based neuronal reconstructions”
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“morphological and physiological descriptions of cell types (including in these large-scale studies) have used quantitative feature extraction but often ultimately relied on expert annotation and categorization7”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > INTRODUCTION
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- Not checked yetcites [7] Ascoli, G. A. et al. Petilla terminology: nomenclature of features of GABAergic interneurons of the cerebral cortex. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 9, 557–568 (2008). source
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“Overall, we found that our joint clustering produced a set of me-types that reflected both experimental modalities measured without either dominating the classification.”
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“For example, several me-types were observed among L4 Nr5a1-labeled neurons, suggesting some heterogeneity within the single t-type L4-IT-Rspo1 (Fig. 7a).”
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“suggesting that at least coarse e-type identity could be inferred from multiple electrophysiological features.”
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“Together, they represented multiple aspects of the electrophysiological responses that could be robustly extracted and compared across all the cells.”
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“For aspiny and spiny datasets, clusters showed good predictability by cross-validation with two supervised classifiers (support vector machine and random forest, see Methods).”
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“These results suggest that the joint morpho-electric clustering identifies a set of me-types that is better correlated with neuronal subclasses than each modality separately.”
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“In addition, the classifiers generally made fewer errors predicting me-types associated with different transcriptomic subclasses, further supporting the proposed organization of me-types.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > RESULTS > Comparison to transcriptomic classification via transgenic lines
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“and could amplify or diminish differences in particular features across neurons.”
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“We developed unsupervised classification methods that were consistently applied across all recorded cells”
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“and thus provide a more robust description of cortical cell types than single-modality data alone.”
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“An advantage of the present study is that the same protocols / conditions were used for each cell type targeted, making it an ideal dataset to bridge data collected in different laboratories, targeting different neurons38.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Patch clamp recording.
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- Not checked yetcites [38] Toledo-Rodriguez, M. Correlation maps allow neuronal electrical properties to be predicted from single-cell gene expression profiles in rat neocortex. Cereb. Cortex 14, 1310–1327 (2004). source
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“A novel aspect of our approach is the dual-modality, joint clustering analysis combining electrophysiological and morphological features to define me-types across a diverse array of cortical neurons.”
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“A substantial improvement over previous attempts in deriving me-types from the simple intersectional overlay of m- and e-types”
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“our use of standardized protocols and equipment throughout yields a classification that does not need to be adjusted for interlaboratory variability38.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > DISCUSSION
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- Not checked yetcites [38] Toledo-Rodriguez, M. Correlation maps allow neuronal electrical properties to be predicted from single-cell gene expression profiles in rat neocortex. Cereb. Cortex 14, 1310–1327 (2004). source
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“these cells are expected to have the Sst-Chodl t-type, linked to deep long-range projecting interneurons12,14,36,37 (Fig. 7h).”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > RESULTS > Correspondence with specific transcriptomic types
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- Not checked yetcites [12] Tasic, B. et al. Adult mouse cortical cell taxonomy revealed by single cell transcriptomics. Nat. Neurosci. 19, 335–346 (2016). source
- Not checked yetcites [14] Tasic, B. et al. Shared and distinct transcriptomic cell types across neocortical areas. Nature 563, 72–78 (2018). source
- Not checked yetcites [36] Boldog, E. et al. Transcriptomic and morphophysiological evidence for a specialized human cortical GABAergic cell type. Nat. Neurosci. 21, 1185–1195 (2018). source
- Not checked yetcites [37] Kanari, L. et al. Objective classification of neocortical pyramidal cells. Cereb. Cortex 29, 1719–1735 (2019). source
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“different recording conditions and methods affect electrophysiological responses39–41”
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- Not checked yetcites [39] He, M. et al. Strategies and tools for combinatorial targeting of GABAergic neurons in mouse cerebral cortex. Neuron 92, 555 (2016). source
- Not checked yetcites [40] Paul, A. et al. Transcriptional architecture of synaptic communication delineates GABAergic neuron identity. Cell 171, 522–539.e20 (2017). source
- Not checked yetcites [41] Tebaykin, D. et al. Modeling sources of interlaboratory variability in electrophysiological properties of mammalian neurons. J. Neurophysiol. 119, 1329–1339 (2018). source
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“We acquired data using a standardized pipeline and uniform quality control checks such that each cell was subject to an identical process”
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“the joint clustering analysis is a more principled approach to extract co-varying features from each modality out of their respective diverse ranges of heterogeneity, resulting in more coherent and meaningful grouping of cells.”
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“suggesting some graded electrophysiological differences between those cells.”
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“Conventional electrophysiological and morphological classification often relies on predetermined, cell-specific feature selection and/or qualitative assessments of firing pattern or cell shape5,7.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > DISCUSSION
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Jiang, X. et al. Principles of connectivity among morphologically defined cell types in adult neocortex. Science 350, aac9462 (2015). source
- Not checked yetcites [7] Ascoli, G. A. et al. Petilla terminology: nomenclature of features of GABAergic interneurons of the cerebral cortex. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 9, 557–568 (2008). source
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“The preliminary correspondences we find here (Fig. 6) support nearly all of the major transcriptomic subclasses identified in the mouse visual cortex.”
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“Therefore, clustering with both modalities allows the most distinct features to be used across different types.”
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“Features predominantly determined by differences in the z-dimension were not included in our morphological classification due to z-compression in the acute slice after processing32,33, and the variable tilt angles of sampled visual cortical neurons.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Morphology feature design and clustering.
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- Not checked yetcites [32] Schubert, D., Kötter, R., Zilles, K., Luhmann, H. J. & StaigerJ. F.. Cell type-specific circuits of cortical layer IV spiny neurons. J. Neurosci. 23, 2961–2970 (2003). source
- Not checked yetcites [33] Scorcioni, R., Polavaram, S. & Ascoli, G. A. L-Measure: a web-accessible tool for the analysis, comparison and search of digital reconstructions of neuronal morphologies. Nat. Protoc. 3, 866–876 (2008). source
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“These different dendritic types roughly equate to interneurons (aspiny and sparsely spiny) and pyramidal or spiny stellate neurons (spiny).”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Dendrite type assignment.
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- Not checked yetcites [49] Tripathy, S. J. et al. Transcriptomic correlates of neuron electrophysiological diversity. PLoS Comput. Biol. 13, e1005814 (2017). source
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“Recent studies have defined taxonomies of mouse neocortical cell types by single-cell RNA-seq transcriptomic profiling of isolated neurons and glia12–14.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > RESULTS > Comparison to transcriptomic classification via transgenic lines
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- Supportedcites [12] Tasic, B. et al. Adult mouse cortical cell taxonomy revealed by single cell transcriptomics. Nat. Neurosci. 19, 335–346 (2016). source
The Abstract states that the study constructed a taxonomy of adult mouse primary visual cortex using single-cell RNA-seq, identifying neuronal and non-neuronal types. “Cortical cell types: markers and relationships” identifies the non-neuronal types, including astrocytes, microglia and oligodendrocytes. The cited paper is therefore an example of the studies described; the passages have no page numbers. (LLM, conf=0.94)
- Not checked yetcites [13] Zeisel, A. et al. Cell types in the mouse cortex and hippocampus revealed by single-cell RNA-seq. Science 347, 1138–1142 (2015). source
- Supportedcites [14] Tasic, B. et al. Shared and distinct transcriptomic cell types across neocortical areas. Nature 563, 72–78 (2018). source
The Abstract states that the study defined 133 transcriptomic cell types by single-cell RNA sequencing of adult mouse neocortex. The Overall cell type taxonomy section says the cells were isolated and identifies both neuronal and non-neuronal types; Extended Data Fig. 9 identifies glial types among the latter. This paper is therefore an example of the studies described in the citing sentence. Page numbers are not provided in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Most cells (n=1,599) were from primary visual cortex (VISp); the remainder were in nearby higher visual areas.”
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“The experimental data and analysis tools are made available as a public resource as part of the Allen Cell Types Database and the Allen Software Development Kit.”
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“We built a publicly-accessible online database, the Allen Cell Types Database, to display these data sets.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > Abstract
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“We established a taxonomy of morphologically- and electrophysiologically-defined cell types for this region of cortex with 17 e-types, 38 m-types, and 46 me-types”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > Abstract
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“We applied a sparse principal components analysis20,21 (sPCA) procedure to each collected subset of the data, which typically identified 1-8 components that exceeded an adjusted explained variance threshold per subset”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > RESULTS > Electrophysiology classification
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“As of this writing, 1,861 out of 1,938 cells had electrophysiological data on the website, and 431 out of 461 reconstructions were on the website.”
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“we identified spiny clusters that subdivided the BBP qualitative m-types (e.g., the single L2/3 PC m-type was split into 6 m-types), and those that merged m-types (e.g., L5 thick tufted 1 and 2”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > RESULTS > Morphology classification
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“clustering them together resulted in a similar, though not identical, number of clusters (14 total), but it also produced one cluster that contained both excitatory and inhibitory neurons”
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“The excitatory e-types were relatively similar to each other, with wide APs and similar distributions of membrane capacitance and input resistance”
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“Inhibitory me-types were consistent with the different inhibitory e-types, although there was some mixing between, for example, the different fast-spiking e-types (Inh_8 through Inh_13”
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“This procedure yielded 17 total clusters, or e-types: four e-types for the 928 excitatory neurons and thirteen for the 1,010 inhibitory neurons.”
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“On the inhibitory side, e-types showed relatively high consistency, m-types had lower scores, and most me-types were again highly consistent with transcriptomic subclasses—for many me-types, a single subclass had a high score while the rest were low”
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“Spiny m-types were predominantly found in a single layer, but were not exclusive to that layer, although see Spiny_1, 3, 10, 14, and 19”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > RESULTS > Morphology classification
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“The 19 m-types for inhibitory interneurons were distributed across all cortical layers (L1-L6b), with most m-types found in multiple layers with the exception of several L2/3-specific m-types”
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“Each of these me-types was usually consistent with an excitatory m-type (Fig. 5c), though in some cases multiple m-types were collapsed into fewer me-types.”
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“membrane capacitance values were nearly all lower than those of the excitatory e-types (though Inh_4 was a notable exception)”
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“The distribution of m-types varied across transgenic lines (Supplementary Fig. 22), and many, but not all, m-types were found in relatively consistent locations on the electrophysiology-based t-SNE projection”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > RESULTS > Morphology classification
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“Relative soma depth, dendrite and axon size and distribution were all important for distinguishing among inhibitory m-types”
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“In total, 38 clusters or m-types were identified, 19 for spiny neurons (Fig. 3) and 19 for aspiny neurons (Fig. 4).”
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“All but 9 of those 461 cells underwent electrophysiological classification; the primary reason for not including these nine was failure to elicit an action potential with the 25 pA/s ramp stimulus.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > RESULTS > Creating the in vitro single cell characterization platform
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“Aspiny m-types within a subclass (e.g., nest and small BCs) were frequently merged within a layer, but we also identified fairly distinct groupings of Martinotti cells, double-bouquet cells, and chandelier cells”
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“here certain e-types had higher proportions of neurons that exhibited these patterns (e.g., Exc_4 for bursting, Inh_1 for delayed firing) but were not strictly demarcated by these patterns.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > RESULTS > Electrophysiology classification
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“Among excitatory cells, we found that most excitatory e-types had low consistency scores (except Exc_4), while more m-types had higher scores, and even more me-types had high scores”
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“Of these, 928 were spiny neurons, which we assume to be excitatory, and 1,010 were aspiny or sparsely spiny, which we assume to be inhibitory”
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“Pvalb-labeled cells were adjacent to Sst cells, and Vip cells were found on the other side of Sst cells.”
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“This led to the identification of 17 e-, 38 m-, and 46 me-types”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > DISCUSSION
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“For example, we identify 46 me-types by joint clustering, in contrast to the 120 observed combinations by just intersecting e- and m-types (Supplementary Fig. 29).”
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“Interestingly, Penk-IRES2-Cre-neo in L5-L6 and Oxtr-T2A-Cre in L6, which labeled overlapping sets of t-types, both identified the same me-type (ME_Exc_6)”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > RESULTS > Correspondence with specific transcriptomic types
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“Analysis of inhibitory neurons yielded 56 total components, excitatory neurons yielded 54 components, and all neurons combined yielded 54 components.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Electrophysiological classification.
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“The L5-L6 neurons labeled by a Nos1/Sst intersectional strategy were quite coherent in the electrophysiological t-SNE projection and had mostly one of two similar me-types”
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“However, other combinations labeling between one and three t-types predominantly had a single me-type (Fig. 7b-d), which were also tightly clustered in the electrophysiological t-SNE projection.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > RESULTS > Correspondence with specific transcriptomic types
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“Accordingly, we found that these neurons had me-types that contained fast-spiking cells and had basket-cell and chandelier-cell morphologies (see Figs. 5d and 6b).”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > RESULTS > Correspondence with specific transcriptomic types
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“This mouse morpho-electric visual cortical dataset is large and diverse”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > DISCUSSION
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“This emphasized the “sag” in the membrane potential due to the activation of Ih observed in some cells.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Electrophysiological feature analysis.
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“Random forest classifier gave 79/70% out-of-bag prediction accuracy and support vector machine showed 89/79% prediction accuracy in leave-one-out cross validation for spiny/aspiny neurons.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Morphology feature design and clustering.
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“The dendritic morphology of each neuron (N=1938) was identified as either aspiny, sparsely spiny or spiny49 based on a qualitative assessment of the neuron’s dendrites by viewing the slides under the microscope and/or in the 63X image.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Dendrite type assignment.
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- Not checked yetcites [49] Tripathy, S. J. et al. Transcriptomic correlates of neuron electrophysiological diversity. PLoS Comput. Biol. 13, e1005814 (2017). source
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“Specific cell types have been characterized quantitatively9–11, but these studies frequently have used additional labels (individual gene markers) to pre-define cell types.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > INTRODUCTION
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- Not checked yetcites [9] Bortone, D. S., Olsen, S. R. & Scanziani, M. Translaminar inhibitory cells recruited by layer 6 corticothalamic neurons suppress visual cortex. Neuron 82, 474–485 (2014). source
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“A diverse set of transgenic mouse lines14–18 were used to ensure broad coverage of excitatory and inhibitory classes across all cortical layers, to enable selective targeting of rare cell populations, and to link our study with other experimental approaches, such as transcriptomic characterization19.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > INTRODUCTION
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- Not checked yetcites [14] Tasic, B. et al. Shared and distinct transcriptomic cell types across neocortical areas. Nature 563, 72–78 (2018). source
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- Not checked yetcites [18] Daigle, T. L. et al. A suite of transgenic driver and reporter mouse lines with enhanced brain-cell-type targeting and functionality. Cell 174, 465–480.e22 (2018). source
- Not checked yetcites [19] Bernard, A., Sorensen, S. A. & Lein, E. S. Shifting the paradigm: new approaches for characterizing and classifying neurons. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 19, 530–536 (2009). source
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“excitatory neuron populations with features often linked to their laminar locations as well as the locations to which they project their axons2–4”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > INTRODUCTION
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- Not checked yetcites [2] Tremblay, R., Lee, S. & Rudy, B. GABAergic interneurons in the neocortex: from cellular properties to circuits. Neuron 91, 260–292 (2016). source
- Not checked yetcites [3] Harris, K. D. & Shepherd, G. M. G. The neocortical circuit: themes and variations. Nat. Neurosci. 18, 170–181 (2015). source
- Not checked yetcites [4] Lodato, S. & Arlotta, P. Generating neuronal diversity in the mammalian cerebral cortex. Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. 31, 699–720 (2015). source
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“Every aspect of the pipeline, from slice preparation, recording, and stimulation, to staining, imaging, reconstruction, and mapping of cells to a reference atlas, employed highly standardized and quality-controlled methodology.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > INTRODUCTION
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“these approaches may successfully identify heterogeneity in features between specific populations under investigation, but these differences may not necessarily co-vary with other features or display discontinuities when examined in the context of a broader set of cortical cells—significant criteria for cell-type classification1.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > INTRODUCTION
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- Not checked yetcites [1] Zeng, H. & Sanes, J. R. Neuronal cell-type classification: challenges, opportunities and the path forward. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 18, 530–546 (2017). source
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“features used to distinguish types can be specific to the population being studied and may not be broadly applicable (or distinguishing) across all cortical neurons.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > INTRODUCTION
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“We characterized mouse visual cortex neurons with a uniform experimental protocol and developed an unsupervised classification scheme of cell types based on electrophysiology and morphology.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > INTRODUCTION
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“Such qualitative descriptions are valuable and can be consistent with statistical analyses of features8, but they can be limited by the number of criteria that can be simultaneously used to differentiate types.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > INTRODUCTION
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- Not checked yetcites [8] Druckmann, S., Hill, S., Schürmann, F., Markram, H. & Segev, I. A hierarchical structure of cortical interneuron electrical diversity revealed by automated statistical analysis. Cereb. Cortex 23, 2994–3006 (2013). source
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“Recent studies using transcriptomic characterization based on single-cell RNA-sequencing techniques performed unsupervised classification to generate a taxonomy of transcriptomic types in the mouse neocortex12–14.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > INTRODUCTION
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- Not checked yetcites [12] Tasic, B. et al. Adult mouse cortical cell taxonomy revealed by single cell transcriptomics. Nat. Neurosci. 19, 335–346 (2016). source
- Not checked yetcites [13] Zeisel, A. et al. Cell types in the mouse cortex and hippocampus revealed by single-cell RNA-seq. Science 347, 1138–1142 (2015). source
- Not checked yetcites [14] Tasic, B. et al. Shared and distinct transcriptomic cell types across neocortical areas. Nature 563, 72–78 (2018). source
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“Recent studies performed at larger scales5,6, including the Blue Brain Project’s thorough classification of morpho-electric diversity in juvenile rat somatosensory cortex, have overcome many of these issues, using large, coherent data sets to identify principles of local connectivity and computation within a cortical column.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > INTRODUCTION
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Jiang, X. et al. Principles of connectivity among morphologically defined cell types in adult neocortex. Science 350, aac9462 (2015). source
- Not checked yetcites [6] Markram, H. et al. Reconstruction and simulation of neocortical microcircuitry. Cell 163, 456–492 (2015). source
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“These approaches rely on data from thousands of neurons generated in a standardized manner.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > INTRODUCTION
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“leading to the characterization of three major populations (i.e., Pvalb+, Sst+, and Htr3a+) of neocortical interneurons, each with distinct types”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > INTRODUCTION
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- Not checked yetcites [2] Tremblay, R., Lee, S. & Rudy, B. GABAergic interneurons in the neocortex: from cellular properties to circuits. Neuron 91, 260–292 (2016). source
- Not checked yetcites [3] Harris, K. D. & Shepherd, G. M. G. The neocortical circuit: themes and variations. Nat. Neurosci. 18, 170–181 (2015). source
- Not checked yetcites [4] Lodato, S. & Arlotta, P. Generating neuronal diversity in the mammalian cerebral cortex. Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. 31, 699–720 (2015). source
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“This agrees with previous descriptions of excitatory m-type distribution in other brain regions8,21.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > RESULTS > Morphology classification
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- Not checked yetcites [8] Druckmann, S., Hill, S., Schürmann, F., Markram, H. & Segev, I. A hierarchical structure of cortical interneuron electrical diversity revealed by automated statistical analysis. Cereb. Cortex 23, 2994–3006 (2013). source
- Not checked yetcites [21] Baden, T. et al. The functional diversity of retinal ganglion cells in the mouse. Nature 529, 345–350 (2016). source
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“All recorded cells underwent the same workflow (Fig. 1a), and only cells that met pre-defined quality control (QC) standards were included in the final data set, which consisted of 1,938 cells passing electrophysiology QC.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > RESULTS > Creating the in vitro single cell characterization platform
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“We characterized the intrinsic electrophysiological properties with a standardized current-clamp protocol that contained a variety of stimuli, including square pulses, ramps, and noisy current injections”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > RESULTS > Electrophysiology classification
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“Properties may vary considerably within a type as long as gradual variation is present; the existence of these intermediates means that there is no identifiable place to subdivide the cluster.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > RESULTS > Electrophysiology classification
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“This cohesiveness suggests that there is similarity in e-features within genetically-defined populations of cortical cells, as well as distinctiveness between non-overlapping populations.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > RESULTS > Electrophysiology classification
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“Image quality control included a z-stack plane count, a visual check for proper stitching alignment and even illumination throughout the images. 63X Z-stacks were evaluated based on quality metrics that would impact cell reconstruction, as opposed to aesthetic quality.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Imaging.
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“Our approach, while certainly not free of biases (e.g., choice of stimuli delivered to the cells, morphological features quantified), has the advantage of being quantitative, reproducible, transferable to new data (e.g., Supplementary Fig. 24-26), and robust across the varied characteristics of the entire population of neurons studied.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > DISCUSSION
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“Our methods and data are publicly accessible as part of the Allen Cell Types Database at celltypes.brain-map.org”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > DISCUSSION
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“we used both electrophysiological and morphological features measured from the same cell together when possible.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > DISCUSSION
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“Electrophysiologically, truncated neurons were distributed in each type and found throughout the t-SNE representation of electrophysiology space.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Tissue processing.
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“The entire procedure (including the robustness evaluation) was repeated on 90% subsets of the dataset to generate a cellwise co-clustering matrix, which supported the assessment of cluster stability.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Electrophysiological classification.
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“However, Exc_4 has the lowest fraction of neurons with a truncated apical dendrite, and the region of the t-SNE projection where Exc_4 is primarily represented appears to have fewer truncated neurons (Supplementary Fig. 32).”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Tissue processing.
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“The recent finding of shared t-types among inhibitory cells but different t-types among excitatory cells from separate cortical areas14”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > DISCUSSION
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [14] Tasic, B. et al. Shared and distinct transcriptomic cell types across neocortical areas. Nature 563, 72–78 (2018). source
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“Although only spiny neurons with an intact apical dendrite were included in morphological analysis, all neurons were included in electrophysiology analysis, though the truncation of the apical dendrite was annotated.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Tissue processing.
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“Image quality evaluation included a qualitative evaluation of signal to noise for the imaged object (with high signal apparent in the cell body and dendrites, as opposed to background stain in the surrounding tissue, which can occur when cell filling leaks), in-focus cell body, and absent or negligible tessellation (tiling and stitching edge artifact). Overall evenness of section illumination and”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Imaging.
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“we note that our electrophysiological results reflect the specific experimental protocols used here”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > DISCUSSION
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“All procedures were carried out in accordance with Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at the Allen Institute for Brain Science.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Mouse breeding and husbandry
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“It is known that individual t-types can exhibit substantial continuous variation within a type14”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > DISCUSSION
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [14] Tasic, B. et al. Shared and distinct transcriptomic cell types across neocortical areas. Nature 563, 72–78 (2018). source
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“Cluster stability was then evaluated by subsampling analysis23.”
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“clusters that had average Jaccard similarities below 0.5 were dissolved by merging into other clusters (using the entropy criterion above), resulting in a final set of clusters, or e-types.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Electrophysiological classification.
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- Not checked yetcites [23] Hennig, C. Cluster-wise assessment of cluster stability. Comput. Stat. Data Anal. 52, 258–271 (2007). source
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“To be included in analysis, a > 1 GΩ seal was recorded prior to break-in and the initial access resistance < 20 MΩ and < 15% of the Rinput.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Patch clamp recording.
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“The composition of bath and internal solution as well as preparation methods were made to a) maximize the tissue quality of slices from adult mice, and b) align with solution compositions typically used in the field (to maximize the chance of comparison to previous studies).”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Patch clamp recording.
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“For an individual sweep to be included: (1) the bridge balance was < 20 MΩ and < 15% of the Rinput, (2) bias (leak) current 0 +/- 100 pA”
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“(3) root mean square (RMS) noise measurements in a short window (1.5 ms, to gauge high frequency noise) and longer window (500 ms, to measure patch instability) < 0.07 mV and 0.5 mV, respectively and (4) the difference in the voltage at the end of the data sweep (measured over 500 ms of rest) and the voltage measured immediately prior to the stimulus onset < 1 mV.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Patch clamp recording.
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“Data from putatively excitatory cells and inhibitory cells (determined by the presence and type of dendritic spines) were analyzed separately, though similar results were observed when all cells were analyzed together (see Supplementary Fig. 6).”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Electrophysiological classification.
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“suggests that applying the methods of this study to a different cortical area may identify the same inhibitory me-types.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > DISCUSSION
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“In addition, the procedure was used on 20%, 40%, 60%, and 80% random subsamples of the data (each drawn 10 times) to evaluate how the number of clusters identified varied with the number of samples used in the analysis.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Electrophysiological classification.
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“The code for feature analysis is publicly available as part of the Allen SDK.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Electrophysiological feature analysis.
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“direct comparisons with previous studies should take into account the fact that specific protocols and solution composition vary within the literature.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Patch clamp recording.
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“Large-scale transcriptomic studies have provided informative taxonomies of cortical cell types12–14.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > DISCUSSION
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- Not checked yetcites [12] Tasic, B. et al. Adult mouse cortical cell taxonomy revealed by single cell transcriptomics. Nat. Neurosci. 19, 335–346 (2016). source
- Not checked yetcites [13] Zeisel, A. et al. Cell types in the mouse cortex and hippocampus revealed by single-cell RNA-seq. Science 347, 1138–1142 (2015). source
- Not checked yetcites [14] Tasic, B. et al. Shared and distinct transcriptomic cell types across neocortical areas. Nature 563, 72–78 (2018). source
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“Clusters with average Jaccard similarities of below 0.5 were considered unstable and were merged with another cluster with the highest between-cluster rate if it exceeded 35% (chosen because it was similar to the 5th percentile of the within-cluster rates of all cells in stable clusters).”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Joint electrophysiological and morphological clustering.
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“As a final step in the manual correction and curation process, an alternate analyst checked for missed branches or inappropriate connections.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Morphological reconstruction.
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“The different stimulus protocols were not presented in a randomized order.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Statistics and research design.
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“Data collection and analysis were not performed blind to the conditions of the experiments as there was a single experimental condition for all acquired data.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Statistics and research design.
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“No randomization was used during data collection as there was a single experimental condition for all acquired data.”
§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Statistics and research design.
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§ Classification of electrophysiological and morphological types in mouse visual cortex > METHODS > Morphological reconstruction.
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“No statistical methods were used to pre-determine sample sizes, but the sample sizes here are similar to those reported in previous publications5,6,12.”
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Jiang, X. et al. Principles of connectivity among morphologically defined cell types in adult neocortex. Science 350, aac9462 (2015). source
- Not checked yetcites [6] Markram, H. et al. Reconstruction and simulation of neocortical microcircuitry. Cell 163, 456–492 (2015). source
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Smaller studies could not be directly compared for morpho-electric properties because of differing protocols, analysis methods, and transgenic line availability, which hindered building a systematic classification.
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Morphological feature distributions were assumed to be normal for the t-test, but this was not formally tested.
“Morphological feature distributions were assumed to be normal for this method, but this was not formally tested (see Supplementary Figs. 19 and 21 for plots of distributions).”
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“Electrophysiological features were measured from responses elicited by short (3 ms) current pulses and long (1 s) current steps as previously described (Gouwens et al., 2019).”
From Integrated Morphoelectric and Transcriptomic Classification of Cortical GABAergic Cells (2020) · cites this paper as Gouwens et al., 2019
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“The observed phenotypes included most of the morphological and electrophysiological types of cortical neurons that have been described previously in mice and rats5,6,24, allowing us to link transcriptomic and morpho-electric descriptions (Extended Data Fig. 3, Supplementary File 1).”
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“Previous studies using transgenic lines had shown that morpho-electric properties within these families can be highly variable5,24.”
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“the number of VISp GABAergic “t-types” (60) and “me-types” (26) - differs by more than a factor of two”
From Integrated Morphoelectric and Transcriptomic Classification of Cortical GABAergic Cells (2020) · cites this paper as Gouwens et al., 2019
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“This is in qualitative agreement with the findings of Gowens et al.76, who, in a parallel work based on unsupervised clustering, identified twice as many morphological types (m-types) as electrophysiological ones (e-types).”
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- Authors
- Gouwens, N. W., Sorensen, S. A., Berg, J., Lee, C., Jarsky, T., Ting, J., Sunkin, S. M., Feng, D., Anastassiou, C. A., Barkan, E., Bickley, K., Blesie, N., Braun, T., Brouner, K., Budzillo, A., Caldejon, S., Casper, T., Castelli, D., Chong, P., Crichton, K., Cuhaciyan, C., Daigle, T. L., Dalley, R., Dee, N., Desta, T., Ding, S.-L., Dingman, S., Doperalski, A., Dotson, N., Egdorf, T., Fisher, M., de Frates, R. A., Garren, E., Garwood, M., Gary, A., Gaudreault, N., Godfrey, K., Gorham, M., Gu, H., Habel, C., Hadley, K., Harrington, J., Harris, J. A., Henry, A., Hill, D., Josephsen, S., Kebede, S., Kim, L., Kroll, M., Lee, B., Lemon, T., Link, K. E., Liu, X., Long, B., Mann, R., McGraw, M., Mihalas, S., Mukora, A., Murphy, G. J., Ng, L., Ngo, K., Nguyen, T. N., Nicovich, P. R., Oldre, A., Park, D., Parry, S., Perkins, J., Potekhina, L., Reid, D., Robertson, M., Sandman, D., Schroedter, M., Slaughterbeck, C., Soler-Llavina, G., Sulc, J., Szafer, A., Tasic, B., Taskin, N., Teeter, C., Thatra, N., Tung, H., Wakeman, W., Williams, G., Young, R., Zhou, Z., Farrell, C., Peng, H., Hawrylycz, M. J., Lein, E., Ng, L., Arkhipov, A., Bernard, A., Phillips, J. W., Zeng, H., & Koch, C.
- Affiliations
- Allen Institute for Brain Science (US)
- Corresponding author
- Zeng, Hongkui
- ORCID
- Gouwens, Nathan W.
- Sorensen, Staci A.
- Berg, Jim
- Lee, Changkyu
- Jarsky, Tim
- Ting, Jonathan
- Sunkin, Susan M.
- Feng, David
- Anastassiou, Costas A.
- Barkan, Eliza
- Bickley, Kris
- Braun, Thomas
- Brouner, Krissy
- Budzillo, Agata
- Caldejon, Shiella
- Casper, Tamara
- Chong, Peter
- Crichton, Kirsten
- Daigle, Tanya L.
- Dalley, Rachel
- Dee, Nick
- Desta, Tsega
- Ding, Song-Lin
- Dotson, Nadezhda
- Egdorf, Tom
- Fisher, Michael
- Gary, Amanda
- Gorham, Melissa
- Hadley, Kristen
- Harris, Julie A.
- Henry, Alex
- Hill, DiJon
- Kebede, Sara
- Kim, Lisa
- Kroll, Matthew
- Lee, Brian
- Link, Katherine E.
- Liu, Xiaoxiao
- Long, Brian
- Mann, Rusty
- Mihalas, Stefan
- Mukora, Alice
- Murphy, Gabe J.
- Ng, Lindsay
- Nguyen, Thuc Nghi
- Nicovich, Philip R.
- Oldre, Aaron
- Potekhina, Lydia
- Reid, David
- Schroedter, Martin
- Slaughterbeck, Cliff
- Soler-Llavina, Gilberto
- Szafer, Aaron
- Tasic, Bosiljka
- Taskin, Naz
- Teeter, Corinne
- Tung, Herman
- Wakeman, Wayne
- Williams, Grace
- Zhou, Zhi
- Farrell, Colin
- Hawrylycz, Michael J.
- Lein, Ed
- Ng, Lydia
- Arkhipov, Anton
- Bernard, Amy
- Phillips, John W.
- Zeng, Hongkui
- Koch, Christof
- Venue
- Nature Neuroscience
- Published
- 2019-06-17
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1182-1195
- ISSN
- 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-1726
- PMC
- PMC8078853
- OpenAlex
- W2949311293
- Semantic Scholar
- fccd157b961e9e3bfa5a0d5616b3a3ecb381ce85
- Cited by
- 456
- References
- 59
- Citations by year
- 2026: 44 · 2025: 69 · 2024: 54 · 2023: 64 · 2022: 63 · 2021: 66 · 2020: 62 · 2019: 30
- FWCI
- 26.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Locations
- Nature Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health (U01MH105982, U19MH114830)
- National Eye Institute (R01EY023173)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Keywords
- neuron classification, mouse visual cortex, neuronal morphology, electrophysiological properties, single-cell characterization, unsupervised clustering
- MeSH terms
- Action Potentials, Animals, Mice, Transgenic, Neurons, Visual Cortex, Databases, Factual, Genes, Reporter, Patch-Clamp Techniques, Cell Shape, Mice, Transcriptome, Datasets as Topic
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