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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2013

Layer-specific experience-dependent rewiring of thalamocortical circuits.

Lang Wang, Michelle Kloc, Yan Gu, Shaoyu Ge, Arianna Maffei

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Inhibitory Gating of Thalamocortical Inputs onto Rat Gustatory Insular Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  3. Altered Thalamocortical Signaling in a Mouse Model of Parkinson's Disease.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  4. A circuit mechanism for independent modulation of excitatory and inhibitory firing rates after sensory deprivation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  14. Laminar- and Target-Specific Amygdalar Inputs in Rat Primary Gustatory Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2016
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  15. Unbiased, High-Throughput Electron Microscopy Analysis of Experience-Dependent Synaptic Changes in the Neocortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2015
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  20. Target-specific properties of thalamocortical synapses onto layer 4 of mouse primary visual cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2014
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Lang WangDepartment of Neurobiology and Behavior, and Program in Neuroscience, State University of New York (SUNY)-Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA.
Michelle Kloc
Yan Gu
Shaoyu Ge
Arianna Maffei

Funding

Inhibitory plasticity in visual cortical circuitsR01EY019885 · NEI · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI MAFFEI, ARIANNA · 2010 to 2013
$1.4M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY019885
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thalamocortical circuits are central to sensory and cognitive processing. Recent work suggests that the thalamocortical inputs onto L4 and L6, the main input layers of neocortex, are activated differently by visual stimulation. Whether these differences depend on layer-specific organization of thalamocortical circuits; or on specific properties of synapses onto receiving neurons is unknown. Here we combined optogenetic stimulation of afferents from the visual thalamus and paired recording electrophysiology in L4 and L6 of rat primary visual cortex to determine the organization and plasticity of thalamocortical synapses. We show that thalamocortical inputs onto L4 and L6 differ in synaptic dynamics and sensitivity to visual drive. We also demonstrate that the two layers differ in the organization of thalamocortical and recurrent intracortical connectivity. In L4, a significantly larger proportion of excitatory neurons responded to light activation of thalamocortical terminal fields than in L6. The local microcircuit in L4 showed a higher degree of recurrent connectivity between excitatory neurons than the microcircuit in L6. In addition, L4 recurrently connected neurons were driven by thalamocortical inputs of similar magnitude indicating the presence of local subnetworks that may be activated by the same axonal projection. Finally, brief manipulation of visual drive reduced the amplitude of light-evoked thalamocortical synaptic currents selectively onto L4. These data are the first direct indication that thalamocortical circuits onto L4 and L6 support different aspects of cortical function through layer-specific synaptic organization and plasticity.

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Analysis of VarianceAnimalsAnimals, NewbornBiophysicsChannelrhodopsinsElectric StimulationExcitatory Postsynaptic PotentialsGeniculate BodiesGreen Fluorescent ProteinsIn Vitro TechniquesNeuronal PlasticityNeuronsOptogeneticsPatch-Clamp TechniquesPhotic StimulationRatsChannelrhodopsinsGreen Fluorescent Proteins

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PMID23447625
PMCPMC3613853

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