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ArticleNature neuroscience2010

Functional imaging of hippocampal place cells at cellular resolution during virtual navigation.

Daniel A Dombeck, Christopher D Harvey, Lin Tian, Loren L Looger, David W Tank

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Article in Nature neuroscience, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 465 papers.

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465citing papers in PubMed
13.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

465 citing papers in PubMed, 932 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Daniel A DombeckDepartment of Molecular Biology and Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. ddombeck@princeton.edu
Christopher D Harvey
Lin Tian
Loren L Looger
David W Tank
Princeton University · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · USJanelia Research Campus · US

Funding

Neural circuit imaging and stimulation at cellular resolution in virtual realityR01MH083686 · NIMH · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI TANK, DAVID W · 2008 to 2018
$3.6M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIMH NIH HHS 5R01MH083686-03NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH083686
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spatial navigation is often used as a behavioral task in studies of the neuronal circuits that underlie cognition, learning and memory in rodents. The combination of in vivo microscopy with genetically encoded indicators has provided an important new tool for studying neuronal circuits, but has been technically difficult to apply during navigation. Here we describe methods for imaging the activity of neurons in the CA1 region of the hippocampus with subcellular resolution in behaving mice. Neurons that expressed the genetically encoded calcium indicator GCaMP3 were imaged through a chronic hippocampal window. Head-restrained mice performed spatial behaviors in a setup combining a virtual reality system and a custom-built two-photon microscope. We optically identified populations of place cells and determined the correlation between the location of their place fields in the virtual environment and their anatomical location in the local circuit. The combination of virtual reality and high-resolution functional imaging should allow a new generation of studies to investigate neuronal circuit dynamics during behavior.

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Action PotentialsAnimalsCalciumCerebral CortexDendritesHippocampusImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMaleMembrane PotentialsMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNeuronsNonlinear DynamicsPatch-Clamp TechniquesSpace PerceptionSpatial BehaviorCalciumSynapsins

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PMID20890294
PMCPMC2967725
OpenAlexW1982918139

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