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Lineage-tracing reveals an expanded population of NPY neurons in the inferior colliculus
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Lineage-tracing reveals an expanded population of NPY neurons in the inferior colliculus
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Lineage-tracing reveals an expanded population of NPY neurons in the inferior colliculus.J Neurophysiol. 2024 Aug 1;132(2):573-588. doi: 10.1152/jn.00131.2024. Epub 2024 Jul 11. J Neurophysiol. 2024. PMID: 38988288
Abstract
Growing evidence suggests that neuropeptide signaling shapes auditory computations. We previously showed that neuropeptide Y (NPY) is expressed in the inferior colliculus (IC) by a population of GABAergic stellate neurons and that NPY regulates the strength of local excitatory circuits in the IC. NPY neurons were initially characterized using the NPY-hrGFP reporter mouse, in which hrGFP expression indicates NPY expression at the time of assay, i.e., an expression-tracking approach. However, studies in other brain regions have shown that NPY expression can vary based on a range of factors, suggesting that the NPY-hrGFP mouse might miss NPY neurons not expressing NPY proximal to the experiment date. Here, we hypothesized that neurons with the ability to express NPY represent a larger population of IC GABAergic neurons than previously reported. To test this hypothesis, we used a lineage-tracing approach to irreversibly tag neurons that expressed NPY at any point prior to the experiment date. We then compared the physiological and anatomical features of neurons labeled with this lineage-tracing approach to our prior data set, revealing a larger population of NPY neurons than previously found. In addition, we used optogenetics to test the local connectivity of NPY neurons and found that NPY neurons routinely provide inhibitory synaptic input to other neurons in the ipsilateral IC. Together, our data expand the definition of NPY neurons in the IC, suggest that NPY expression might be dynamically regulated in the IC, and provide functional evidence that NPY neurons form local inhibitory circuits in the IC.
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Conflict of Interest Statement: The authors declare no competing financial interests.
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