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- noun biochemistry A small
albumin protein of thenervous system that bindscalcium
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The soma-targeting type expresses a protein called parvalbumin and has been linked to brain disorders and circuit development.
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The authors describe this paper as if it supports the mainstream read fMRI activity = excitation; the paper itself seems to downplay the parvalbumin/inhibitory results.
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More information: "Response features of parvalbumin-expressing interneurons suggest precise roles for subtypes of inhibition in visual cortex" by TK TK.
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Wart and Nathan Wilson used cutting-edge techniques to examine the properties of parvalbumin-expressing inhibitory neurons.
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They found that parvalbumin-expressing interneurons have a range of response features.
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Deisseroth's team focused on neurons in mice that produce a protein called parvalbumin.
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The potential link to disease comes from the fact that in autism the gamma oscillations appear to be present at the wrong intensity, while in schizophrenia there appear to be too few parvalbumin neurons.
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Cunningham MO, Hunt J, Middleton S, Lebeau FEN, Gillies MG, et al. (2006) Region-specific reduction in entorhinal gamma oscillations and parvalbumin-immunoreactive neurons in animal models of psychiatric illness.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Prateep S. Beed et al. 2009
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The team did this with parvalbumin neurons in mice and found that by exciting or inhibiting them, they could produce or suppress "gamma" waves and see a marked change in the "bit rate" or quantity of information flowing through brain circuits.
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"The final outcome of this is that parvalbumin neurons and gamma oscillations work together to enhance the flow of real information in the brain."
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