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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 11.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Neurosci. 2016 May 26;17(7):401–409. doi: 10.1038/nrn.2016.53

Table 1.

Basal firing frequencies of SST neurons

Brain area Preparation* Firing rate in Hz ± s.e.m. (range of firing rates in Hz) Refs
L2/3 of S1 Acute slice 3.1 ± 0.1 (2–3.9) 10
L2/3 of S1 Acute slice 2.4 ± 0.6 (0–13) 18
L5 of S1 Acute slice 4.5 (0.7–8.5) 18
Hippocampus OLM Acute slice 4.3 ± 1 58
L2/3 of S1 In vivo, anaesthetized 0 52
L2/3 of V1 In vivo, anaesthetized 1.3 ± 0.5 49
L2/3 of V1 In vivo, anaesthetized 2.7 ± 0.4 51
L2/3 of S1 In vivo, quiet awake 6.3 ± 0.6 (0–15) 52
L2/3 of S1 In vivo, whisking in air 2.1 ± 0.4 52
L2/3 of S1 In vivo, with whisker touch 1.7 ± 0.9 52
L2/3 of V1 In vivo, awake 7.2 ± 8 53
L2/3 of V1 In vivo, awake 7 ± 2 51
L2/3 of V1 In vivo, running 11.6 ± 10.8 53
L2/3 of V1 In vivo, awake, visual stimuli 26 ± 2 51

L2/3, layer 2/3; L5, layer 5; OLM, stratum oriens–lacunosum moleculare; S1, primary sensory cortex; SST neurons, somatostatin-expressing neurons; V1, primary visual cortex.

*

All experiments were carried out in mice or in slices derived from mice.