Journal: PLOS Biology
Article Title: Thalamic reticular neurons provide cell type-specific modulation of sound processing in the auditory thalamus
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003693
Figure Lengend Snippet: A. PV-Cre mice were injected with AAV5-hSyn1-SIO-stGtACR1-FusionRed into the audTRN and were implanted with an optic fiber. We selectively inactivated PV TRN neurons on half of the trials while recording from MGB neurons in awake head-fixed mice in response to pure tones. On light-On trials, light was presented simultaneously with the tone. Raster plot of responses spike times for an example facilitated unit; trials are ordered by frequency and light condition. The gray box indicates light-Off conditions, and the blue box indicates the light-On conditions. B. PSTH of the facilitated example unit averaged across all trials for light-Off (black line) and light-On (blue line) conditions. C. Frequency response function for the facilitated unit during the early and late 25 ms of tone presentation during light-Off and light-On conditions. D–F. same as A–C , but for a representative suppressed neuron. G, H. Left: mean PSTH of facilitated ( G ) and suppressed ( H ) recorded neurons in MGB ( N = 74 facilitated and N = 104 suppressed neurons) for Light-Only trials (green line), tone-On, light-Off trials (black line), and tone-On, light-On trials (light blue line). Right: time to peak of tone-evoked responses for facilitated ( G , blue) and suppressed ( H , red) MGB neurons for light-Off (blue/red) and light-On (light blue) trials. I–K . Left: scatter plots and box plots of the firing rates for light-Off and light-On conditions for facilitated (blue) and suppressed (red) neurons during spontaneous activity prior to tone/light presentation (I) , 0–25 ms post tone onset (J) , and 25–50 ms post tone onset (K) . L , M. Left panels: baseline-subtracted light responses for light-Only stimuli (green), and light-induced change in firing rate between the two tone-On conditions (blue, difference between tone-On, light-On and tone-On, light-Off firing rates). Middle panel: scatter plot, and right panel: box plots of mean firing rate changes in light response in tone-On vs. tone-Off conditions for the first 0–25 ms of stimulus presentation. L : facilitated neurons. M : suppressed neurons. Dashed line is x = y. N = 256 units; n = 4 mice. Here and below, boxplots depict the median and interquartile range (IQR) for each condition; whiskers extend to values within 1.5xIQR; shaded areas in psths represent SEM±; error bars represent SEM±. *** denotes p-value < 0.001; * denotes p-value < 0.05. The data underlying this Figure can be found in .
Article Snippet: For anterograde tracing of PV or SST neurons of the audTRN and control experiments we injected 400–450 nL 0f AAV5- hSyn-DIO-mCherry (≥ 7 × 1012 vg/mL, Addgene 50459-AAV5).
Techniques: Injection, Activity Assay