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Table 2.

Characteristics of rodent neocortical GABAergic neurons expressing neuronal nitric oxide synthase.

Markers	% cells within nNOS-type II	Morphology	Axonal targeting	Firing pattern^*	Transcription factors or lineage markers	Place of genesis
Highly		Long projection¹^,²	Blood vessels¹^,²	Late spiking³^,⁸	Nkx2.1/Lhx6³^,⁴^,⁵	MGE³^,⁴^,⁵
nNOS⁺SOM⁺/NPY⁺³^,⁴^,⁵^,⁶^,⁷^,⁸			Neurons¹^,²	Adapting³^,⁸
(nNOS-type I)
Lightly nNOS⁺	55	Neurogliaform³^,⁶	Blood vessels ?	Adapting³^,⁸	Nkx2.1/Lhx6³^,⁴	MGE³^,⁴
NPY⁺³^,⁵^,⁶^,⁸^,⁹			Dentritic shaft		5-HT_3A³^,⁴^,⁶	CGE/AEP³^,⁴
(nNOS-type II)
Lightly nNOS⁺ PV⁺ or SOM⁺³^,⁵^,⁶^,⁸^,¹⁰ (nNOS-type II)	35	Multipolar³	Blood vessels ? Proximal dendrites Soma Axonal initial segment	Fast spiking³	Nkx2.1/Lhx6³^,⁴	MGE³^,⁴
Lightly nNOS	10	Bipolar³^,⁶	Blood vessels ?	Adapting³	5-HT_3A³^,⁴^,⁶	AEP/PO? ³
VIP⁺/CR⁺³^,⁵^,⁶^,⁸		Double-bouquet³^,⁶	Soma			CGE³^,⁴
(nNOS-type II)						SVZ/Ctx?

Firing pattern elicited from intracellular injections of depolarizing currents: AEP, entopeduncular area; CGE, caudal ganglionic eminence; Ctx, cortex; LGE, lateral ganglionic eminence; MGE, medial ganglionic eminence; POA, preoptic area; SVZ, subventricular zone.

Tomioka et al., 2005,

Higo et al., 2009,

Perrenoud et al., 2012a,

⁴

Magno et al., 2012,

⁵

Jaglin et al., 2012,

⁶

Perrenoud et al., 2012b,

⁷

Kubota et al., 2011,

⁸

Karagiannis et al., 2009,

⁹

Oláh et al., 2009,

¹⁰

Vruwink et al., 2001.