F170. Distinct Laminar and Regional Patterns of Markers of GABA Neuron Subtypes in Monkey Prefrontal and Visual Cortices

Evidence of GABA neuron dysfunction is a common finding in postmortem studies of certain psychiatric illnesses. Although they utilize similar gene products for neurotransmission, subtypes of GABA neurons are distinguished based on the expression of different molecular markers. Transcript levels of many of these gene products are known to differ between prefrontal (PFC) and primary visual (V1) cortices, but whether the laminar patterns of expression are conserved or different between these regions is not known.