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ArticleNature neuroscience2013

Developmental origins of central norepinephrine neuron diversity.

Sabrina D Robertson, Nicholas W Plummer, Jacqueline de Marchena, Patricia Jensen

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Article in Nature neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 156 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

156 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sabrina D RobertsonLaboratory of Neurobiology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
Nicholas W Plummer
Jacqueline de Marchena
Patricia Jensen

Funding

Central Noradrenergic Neuron Subtype Development and FunctionZIAES102805 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI JENSEN, PATRICIA · 2010 to 2025
$33.9M
NIEHS Knock Out Mouse Core (KOMC) Annual ReportZICES102425 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI RAY, MANAS · 2010 to 2025
$20.1M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA ES102805
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Central norepinephrine-producing neurons comprise a diverse population of cells differing in anatomical location, connectivity, function and response to disease and environmental insult. The mechanisms that generate this diversity are unknown. Here we elucidate the lineal relationship between molecularly distinct progenitor populations in the developing mouse hindbrain and mature norepinephrine neuron subtype identity. We have identified four genetically separable subpopulations of mature norepinephrine neurons differing in their anatomical location, axon morphology and efferent projection pattern. One of the subpopulations showed an unexpected projection to the prefrontal cortex, challenging the long-held belief that the locus coeruleus is the sole source of norepinephrine projections to the cortex. These findings reveal the embryonic origins of central norepinephrine neurons and provide multiple molecular points of entry for future study of individual norepinephrine circuits in complex behavioral and physiological processes including arousal, attention, mood, memory, appetite and homeostasis.

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NeurogenesisAdrenergic FibersAdrenergic NeuronsAfferent PathwaysAnimalsAxonsCell CountCell LineageDopamine beta-HydroxylaseFemaleGenes, ReporterGreen Fluorescent ProteinsLocus CoeruleusMaleMiceNerve Tissue ProteinsDopamine beta-Hydroxylaseenhanced green fluorescent proteinGreen Fluorescent ProteinsNerve Tissue ProteinsNorepinephrineRecombinant Fusion Proteins

Identifiers

PMID23852112
PMCPMC4319358

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