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I have a respectable digital scrapbook of some of my favorites. Apparently, when MySpace was the rage, Ms. Babyfayce posted literally hundreds of pictures of herself in various poses. Shortly thereafter, people began stealing the photos of Katie Babyfayce and most of them did one of the following: 1 pretended to be her, 2 created a fictional name and used her photos, or 3 created fan sites in her honor.

Her swift departure from the internet only served to fuel the somewhat perverse imaginings of her fans. Rather than fade into the abysmal archives of the web, she became a hot topic of discussion. These are just a few of the questions I found on Yahoo! The downside of OCD is information overload. In other words, I was staring at a mountain of OCD triggers, but as I said, I have a mild affliction, so I tucked all of it away in a corner of my mind for later analysis.

I knew there was a blog post hiding somewhere in there. To wrap-up my rant, I am absolutely in favor of internet security and anonymity, but this type of behavior is simultaneously entertaining, fascinating and repulsive.

Since her true age is unknown, she was somewhere between the ages of 11 — 13 when she started. While the internet outwardly appears anonymous, there are those who know how to get around firewalls and security programs. This article originally appeared on Marketing Conversation and has been republished with permission.

Find out how to syndicate your content with B2C. Join over , of your peers and receive our weekly newsletter which features the top trends, news and expert analysis to help keep you ahead of the curve. The best of B2C in your inbox every Monday Sign up now. Toggle navigation Business 2 Community. Sheila Papaleo December 23, They displayed action potential discharges that were accelerating at threshold, adapting at saturation and a significantly larger accommodation of spike amplitude than in other clusters.

In addition, these GABAergic neurons displayed long duration spikes followed by significantly slower AHPs than observed in other neurons. These neurons displayed several unique electrophysiological characteristics. They had depolarized membrane potentials and short time constants. Moreover, these cells showed little or no adaptation at threshold, fired at significantly higher maximal rates, and displayed significantly faster spike and AHP dynamics than other neurons.

In rodents numerous studies have demonstrated that telencephalic interneurons mainly derive from subpallial territories Figure 4. Indeed, in mice deficient for Nkx2. Sussel et al. More recently, it was demonstrated that Nkx2. Indeed, together these studies showed that telencephalic hippocampal and neocortical interneurons expressing VIP, CR, and a subpopulation of neocortical neurogliaform interneurons expressing NPY Lee et al.

Homochronic grafting of the AEP has revealed that this region does not appear to contribute importantly to the genesis of neocortical neurons expressing 5-HT 3A. Figure 4. Origins of GABAergic neurons populating the cerebral cortex and hippocampus at embryonic stages. Territories expressing specific transcription factors or molecules classically used to determine the place of genesis of specific interneurons subpopulation are drawn.

Figure 5. Phenotype of mice lacking Nkx2. Since Nkx2. Besides contributions from the MGE, CGE, and AEP other regions have been implicated in the genesis of neocortical and hippocampal interneurons such as the preoptic regions and the neocortex. Recently, homochronic graftings of dorsal preoptic territories POA1 have revealed that Nkx5.

The anatomical features and firing patterns of these neurons in the neocortex suggested they represent an additional subset of neurogliaform interneurons Gelman et al. Together these studies have successfully correlated the place of genesis and the contribution of specific transcription factors or molecular markers with a preferential interneuron phenotype and location. Specific guidance molecules are preferentially expressed in different subterritories and participate to the targeting of specific interneuron subpopulations.

Recent studies suggest that motility and guidance of interneurons depend on several molecular cues that are already differentially expressed in ganglionic eminences and neocortical compartments Powell et al. However, other mechanisms have been shown to participate in the correct positioning of specific classes of interneurons.

In addition to the embryonic genesis of neocortical interneurons recent studies have also shown that during the three first postnatal weeks the neocortex produces CR-positive interneurons Cameron and Dayer, ; Inta et al.

Such postnatally generated populations may participate in distinct physiological processes including the appropriate targeting of callosal projections. Therefore specific studies have addressed their embryonic origin using lineage analysis, conditional fate-mapping, and loss of function Fogarty et al. Using an Nkx2. This was also supported by the expression of Lhx6 in these subpopulations Tricoire et al.

Moreover, conditional loss of Nkx2. Figure 6. B Nkx2. Top, In situ hybridization against Lhx6 transcripts on hippocampus of control left and mutant right P15 mice after conditional loss of Nkx2. The striking difference between hippocampal and neocortical NGFCs suggests that interneuron precursors could be fated early during embryogenesis to reside in either the hippocampus or neocortex, perhaps reflecting differential sensitivities to specific sorting factors like chemokines Li et al.

Alternatively, these cells may adopt a different fate depending on whether they integrate into the hippocampus or neocortex due to differential expression of morphogenic molecules within these local environments. Investigations into the developmental origins of neocortical GABAergic neurons expressing nNOS are only in their infancy due to the fact that this population in the juvenile brain is largely heterogeneous and thus poorly defined.

The study presented by Perrenoud et al. Indeed, Perrenoud et al. Interestingly, it was recently shown that the specification of a large fraction of nNOS-type I neurons required the Lhx6-mediated activation of Sox6 for proper specification Batista-Brito et al. These cells are mainly localized in the superficial layers where they may participate in neuro-vascular coupling.

The recent genesis of a transgenic line expressing a tamoxifen inducible Cre recombinase under the control of the nNOS promoter nNOS-CreER will help to analyze the physiological roles that these populations may play Taniguchi et al. Rodents, specifically mice, are of great interest due to the availability of transgenic models Taniguchi et al.

However, it is difficult to relate neocortical development in mice to the much longer timescale and complexity of primate development Uylings et al. Indeed, comparative studies across species indicate that the first postnatal week in mice corresponds broadly to gestational days 85— in macaques and to — in humans Clancy et al. The much longer timescale in these higher order species is certainly due to the important brain expansion in size and therefore to the increasing distance of subpalial and pallial territories and concerns the place of origins of telencephalic interneurons see Molnar et al.

Indeed, while the vast majority of telencephalic GABAergic neurons originate from supallial territories in rodents see above , in humans from 5 to 15 gestational weeks and primates this is only the case for the first generated ones that mainly arise from MGE Letinic et al.

Later, neurogenesis occurs in dorsal pallial territories and presumably in the CGE Petanjek et al. Recently, analysis of interneuron densities in postmortem brain tissue from humans suffering from holoprosencephaly associated with agenesis of GE showed a strong correlation between massive reductions in Nkx2. These observations suggest that, like in mice, these populations of putative nNOS-type I cells are generated in the GE.

The pattern of nNOS immunoreactivity in the rodent telencephalon undergoes sterotyped changes during development. From embryonic day 13 E13 to the first postnatal day P0 , a period of intense neuronal migration, nNOS is strikingly expressed by distinct cells types.

Later on, from E17 to E19, in rats, neurons displaying leading processes oriented along the intermediate zone or toward the pial surface, presumably migrating neurons were reported to express nNOS Santacana et al. Neurons in layers V and VI precede those in the superficial layers in acquiring their final morphology. In rat barrel cortex, an area that integrates sensory inputs coming from the whiskers, between P10 and P90, the neuropilic distributions of NADPH-d and cytochrome oxidase CO activities exhibit a remarkable similarity.

NADPH-d activity is denser in barrel hollows, regions that receive somatotopic sensory thalamic inputs, and is less active in barrel septa Furuta et al. The dendritic arborizations of NADPH-d active neurons become more elaborate during barrel development.

NO is a free radical gas that can move rapidly across plasma membranes in anterograde and retrograde directions to act presynaptically, postsynaptically or within the cell that has produced it. So far three NOS isoforms have been identified, two of which, endothelial eNOS and the neuronal nNOS , are constitutively expressed while the third one is inducible and rarely present under basal conditions.

Each NOS subtype has distinct functional and structural features. Alternatively, calcium liberated from intracellular stores such as the endoplasmic reticulum i. Arginine transported into the cell by the anion-cation tranporter is oxidised by nNOS into citrulline in a nicotinamide adenine dinucleothide phosphate NADPH -dependant manner Snyder et al.

Within cells, NO has the capacity to trigger several transduction pathways. The most well-known involves activation of guanylyl cyclase Arnold et al. Indeed, in neuronal cultures NOS inhibition attenuates bicuculine-induced activation of Erk as well as the rise in c-Fos, Egr-1, and Arc that are all implicated in experience-dependant plasticity in the barrel cortex.

In addition several cGMP-independent effects of NO related to nervous system function have been reported. Finally, excessive NO production is potentially neurotoxic but this aspect is beyond the scope of this revue Steinert et al. Figure 7. Synthesis of nitric oxide and transduction cascades. Neuronal nitric oxide synthase nNOS is activated by a calcium-dependant calmodulin. NOS produces nitric oxide NO upon oxidation of arginine into citrulline.

NO diffuses and act on presynaptic or postsynaptic targets. CAT, cation and anion transporter; PL. M, plasma membrane. Adapted from Gallo and Iadecola Numerous papers and reviews have described the role of nNOS and NO in various neuronal populations during development. It has been shown that NO acts as a paracrine messenger in newly generated neurons to control the proliferation and differentiation of mouse brain neural progenitor cells NPC.

Interestingly, a similar role of NO was demonstrated in the subventricular zone of adult mice, a region that retains the capacity to generate neurons at mature stages Xiong et al. In addition to regulating neurogenesis, NO has also been implicated in the formation of cerebral maps. This role has been largely investigated and demonstrated in the visual system where NO induces synaptic refinement or elimination of immature synaptic connections at retino-collicular and retino-thalamic levels Cramer et al.

However, outside of retino-collicular and retino-thalamic organization, NO appears dispensible for the establishment of patterned neocortical maps since animals receiving daily injection of nitroarginine prior to and during the period of ocular dominance column formation, as well as nNOS knockout mice, display normal organization of the somatosensory cortex and barrel field plasticity Van der Loos and Woolsey, ; Finney and Shatz, Nevertheless, though apparently not instructive, NO may still participate in establishing and refining neocortical connectivity.

Indeed, when NADPH-d activity is altered in the barrel field, as observed in mice lacking NMDAR1 specifically in neocortical neurons, abnormal segregation of thalamocortical axons occurs Iwasato et al.

In these animals thalamocortical axons display fewer branch points in layer IV and abnormally expansive thalamocortical arbors, a feature that corresponds to a rudimentary whisker-specific pattern.

These results suggest that NO could promote thalamocortical sprouting and participates in the consolidation of synaptic strength in layer IV of the primary somatosensory cortex.

Finally, it has been shown that between P6 and P10 in rodents, NO also affects neuronal gap-junction coupling. In the developing neocortex, gap-junctions represent a transient metabolic and electrical communication system occurring between glutamatergic or GABAergic neurons belonging to the same radial column. Thus, NO mediated regulation of gap junctions has the capacity to affect electrical coupling, synchronization of metabolic states and, coordination of transcriptional activity amongst connected neurons.

The idea that NO might modulate synaptic transmission, first proposed in by Garthwaite and colleagues Garthwaite et al. Indeed, studies using NO donors suggest that release of several transmitters, including acetylcholine, catecholamines, glutamate and GABA are regulated by endogenous NO. As a gaseous very weakly polar molecule without net electric charge and due to its small size, NO can diffuse readily across cell membranes. However, the high reactivity of NO as a free radical limits activity to within a micrometer of its site of synthesis allowing for synapse specificity in modulating presynaptic function Garthwaite, This occurs via the activation of postsynaptic NMDA receptors, synthesis of NO by NOS expressed in pyramidal cells and then retrograde activation of guanylate cyclase located in axon terminals See Feil and Kleppisch, for detailed intracellular mechanisms.

In contrast, in the cerebellum NO serves as an anterograde messenger that is produced in parallel fiber terminals or cerebellar interneurons and then diffuses to the postsynaptic Purkinje cell to induce LTD through a cGMP-dependent mechanism for review see Feil et al.

Studies investigating synaptic modulation by NO have typically considered it to be derived from NOS localized in pyramidal cell postsynaptic densities. Even if NO can modulate GABAergic transmission, it is still unclear if the NO released by interneurons principally regulates transmitter release or instead participates in other homeostatic processes such as regulation blood flow or neuronal excitability Iadecola et al.

Indeed bath application of an NO donor onto acute rat neocortical slices cause dilation of blood vessels Cauli et al. Such tight coupling between neuronal activity of interneurons expressing nNOS and vasomotricity has also been reported in other brain structures such as cerebellum where pharmacological or electrical stimulation of stellate cells, which strongly express nNOS, induces vasodilation by release of NO that can be measured using NO-sensitive electrode Rancillac et al.

To resolve these conflicting observations we propose that NPY, which is likely released at axon terminals, controls blood vessel tone distally from the cell body while NO released by the somato-dendritic compartment acts more proximally via volume transmission. These differential effects would permit fine-tuning of energy and oxygen supply by creating locally a microsphere with increased blood perfusion consequently to increased neural activity Estrada and DeFelipe, Indeed the hyperpolarization activated current that serves as a pacemaker to generate rhythmic activity amongst thalamic neurons Pape and Mager, is regulated by NO Biel et al.

NO also acts on several potassium conductances such as the delayed rectifier Kv3 channels Rudy and McBain, It has been shown that NO donors inhibit both Kv3.

Such inhibition of Kv3 current has also been observed in the central nervous system via volume transmission in the auditory brain stem and the hippocampus Steinert et al.

NO-mediated modulation of Kv3 would therefore regulate the spike timing of these neurons Lien and Jonas, Recently, the role of NO in sleep regulation has been challenged. Indeed, the group of Kilduff has shown that long range projecting nNOS-type I GABAergic neurons are specifically activated during sleep by demonstrating that these cells specifically accumulate c-Fos during sleep rebound following sleep deprivation Gerashchenko et al.

The mechanism behind this activation is not completely understood. Interestingly it has been reported that nNOS knockout mice spend more time than controls in slow wave sleep as monitored by EEG.

However additional experiments remain to be performed to fully address this point. One important issue to address is to determine the extent to which interneurons are fully specified by their place and time of genesis. At mature stages interneuron subtypes are characterized by a combination of: 1 their laminar position within different circuits; 2 specific combinations of neurochemical markers; 3 their basic morphology; and 4 their electrophysiological features including passive membrane properties, spiking behavior and synaptic connectivity.

Various studies including some highlighted above have shown that these criteria are largely dictated by an interneuron's site and time of genesis. However, some studies have also pointed to a role for the cellular environment an interneuron ultimately occupies in refining these properties such as their stratification i.

In this respect it should be mentioned that the expression of nNOS appears to be developmentally regulated in various neuronal populations and could be modulated by cellular targets in subpopulations of interneurons i. The recent generation and use of Cre reporter animals in association with other techniques have been successfully used to determine the embryonic origin and birthdating of nNOS type I and type II interneurons revealing for the first time their heterogeneity and specificities lineage and characteristics displayed at mature stage; in this issue.

The increasing array of transgenic models and genetic tools available i. Interestingly, the unique features that have been shown to depend on neuronal activity Verhage et al.

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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