Figure 6. Laminar Analysis of Cortical Long-Range Inputs to PV Cells.
(A) Fraction of long-range inputs by layer compartment from all cortical areas, except motor cortex (ANOVA, F = 23.48, p < 0.001, post hoc Tukey analysis; mean ± SD).
(B–E) Fraction of long-range inputs by layer compartment from secondary somatosensory cortex (S2; B), visual cortex (C), auditory cortex (D), and primary somatosensory cortex (S1) body representation (E). LIV always contained a larger or an equal number of projection neurons than upper or deep layers. In visual cortex, it even contained the largest number of projection neurons.
*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, and ***p < 0.001.