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"papers": [
{
"doi": "10.7554/elife.05558",
"value": "SST suppression during locomotion enables adult OD plasticity",
"method": "calcium imaging + intrinsic signal imaging",
"metric": "Plasticity gating",
"cite_key": "Fu2015",
"condition": "V1, ocular dominance plasticity",
"study_system": "mouse",
"value_source_sentence": "A cortical disinhibitory circuit for enhancing adult plasticity."
},
{
"doi": "10.1016/j.neuron.2019.01.036",
"value": "SST neurons enable and maintain learning-dependent sequential patterns",
"method": "two-photon calcium imaging",
"metric": "Sequence learning",
"cite_key": "Adler2019",
"condition": "cortex, associative learning",
"study_system": "mouse",
"value_source_sentence": "Somatostatin-Expressing Interneurons Enable and Maintain Learning-Dependent Sequential Activity Patterns."
},
{
"doi": "10.1038/s41593-018-0330-y",
"value": "DLS SST neurons track and predict non-freezing epochs during contextual fear recall",
"method": "in vivo calcium imaging",
"metric": "Fear learning",
"cite_key": "Besnard2019",
"condition": "DLS, contextual fear conditioning",
"study_system": "mouse",
"value_source_sentence": "Longitudinal in vivo calcium imaging of DLS SST-INs identified a stable population of footshock responsive SST-INs."
},
{
"doi": "10.1038/nature10674",
"value": "Disinhibition via SST suppression mediates fear learning in auditory cortex",
"method": "optogenetics + electrophysiology",
"metric": "Fear learning",
"cite_key": "Letzkus2011",
"condition": "auditory cortex, fear conditioning",
"study_system": "mouse",
"value_source_sentence": "A disinhibitory microcircuit for associative fear learning in the auditory cortex."
}
],
"comparison_id": "sst-learning-plasticity-evidence",
"comparison_name": "SST Neuron Roles in Learning and Plasticity Across Paradigms",
"comparison_type": "convergent evidence",
"what_it_reveals": "SST neurons contribute to multiple forms of learning and plasticity through different mechanisms - disinhibition-gating, sequence maintenance, and fear encoding.",
"homogeneity_check": {
"caveats": [
"Different brain regions (V1, cortex, DLS, A1)",
"Different learning paradigms (OD plasticity, associative, fear)",
"SST neurons may play different roles in different forms of learning"
],
"comparable": false
},
"suggested_plot_type": "grouped bar"
}