Not all that glitters is gold: off-target recombination in the somatostatin-IRES-Cre mouse line labels a subset of fast-spiking interneurons

Front Neural Circuits. 2013 Dec 10:7:195. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2013.00195. eCollection 2013.
No abstract available

Keywords: Cre mice; Cre reporters; fast spiking; inhibitory interneurons; parvalbumin; somatostatin.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Action Potentials / physiology*
  • Animals
  • Integrases / genetics
  • Interneurons / physiology*
  • Mice
  • Neocortex / physiology*
  • Recombination, Genetic
  • Somatostatin / genetics

Substances

  • Somatostatin
  • Cre recombinase
  • Integrases