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Rich cell-type-specific network topology in neocortical microcircuitry

Gal, Eyal
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London, Michael
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Globerson, Amir
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2017
Nature Neuroscience

Uncovering structural regularities and architectural topologies of cortical circuitry is vital for understanding neural computations. Recently, an experimentally constrained algorithm generated a dense network reconstruction of a similar to 0.3-mm(3) volume from juvenile rat somatosensory neocortex, comprising similar to 31,000 cells and similar to 36 million synapses. Using this reconstruction, we found a small-world topology with an average of 2.5 synapses separating any two cells and multiple cell-type-specific wiring features. Amounts of excitatory and inhibitory innervations varied across cells, yet pyramidal neurons maintained relatively constant excitation/inhibition ratios. The circuit contained highly connected hub neurons belonging to a small subset of cell types and forming an interconnected cell-type-specific rich club. Certain three-neuron motifs were overrepresented, matching recent experimental results. Cell-type-specific network properties were even more striking when synaptic strength and sign were considered in generating a functional topology. Our systematic approach enables interpretation of microconnectomics 'big data' and provides several experimentally testable predictions.

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research article
DOI
10.1038/nn.4576
Web of Science ID

WOS:000404115100017

Author(s)
Gal, Eyal
London, Michael
Globerson, Amir
Ramaswamy, Srikanth
Reimann, Michael W.
Muller, Eilif
Markram, Henry  
Segev, Idan
Date Issued

2017

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group

Published in
Nature Neuroscience
Volume

20

Issue

7

Start page

1004

End page

1013

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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BBP-CORE  
Available on Infoscience
July 10, 2017
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/138918
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