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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2014

Characterization of long descending premotor propriospinal neurons in the spinal cord.

Yingchun Ni, Homaira Nawabi, Xuefeng Liu, Liu Yang, Kazunari Miyamichi, Andrea Tedeschi, Bengang Xu, Nicholas R Wall, Edward M Callaway, Zhigang He

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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49citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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49 citing papers in PubMed, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. Spinal interneurons of the lower urinary tract circuits.Autonomic neuroscience : basic & clinical · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yingchun NiF.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
Homaira NawabiF.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
Xuefeng LiuF.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
Liu YangF.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
Kazunari MiyamichiHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, and.
Andrea TedeschiF.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
Bengang XuF.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
Nicholas R WallSystems Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92037.
Edward M CallawaySystems Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92037.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6366-5267
Zhigang HeF.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, zhigang.he@childrens.harvard.edu.
Boston Children's Hospital · US

Funding

SYNAPTIC MECHANISMS IN HIPPOCAMPAL EPILEPTOGENESISP30HD018655 · NICHD · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON · PI CHEN, CHINFEI · 1985 to 2015
$26.2M
Local Connections of Inhibitory Cortical NeuronsR01MH063912 · NIMH · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI CALLAWAY, EDWARD M · 2001 to 2020
$8.4M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNICHD NIH HHS P30 HD018655NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH063912
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The motor function of the spinal cord requires the computation of the local neuronal circuits within the same segments as well as the long-range coordination of different spinal levels. Implicated players in this process are the propriospinal neurons (PPNs) that project their axons across different levels of the spinal cord. However, their cellular, molecular, and functional properties remain unknown. Here we use a recombinant rabies virus-based method to label a specific type of long-projecting premotor PPNs in the mouse upper spinal cord that are monosynaptically connected to the motor neurons in the lumbar spinal cord. With a whole spinal cord imaging method, we find that these neurons are distributed along the entire length of the upper spinal cord with more in the lower thoracic levels. Among them, a subset of thoracic PPNs receive substantial numbers of sensory inputs, suggesting a function in coordinating the activity of trunk and hindlimb muscles. Although many PPNs in the cervical and thoracic spinal cord receive the synaptic inputs from corticospinal tract or serotonergic axons, limited bouton numbers suggested that these supraspinal inputs might not be major regulators of the PPNs in intact animals. Molecularly, these PPNs appear to be distinct from other known premotor interneurons, but some are derived from Chx10+ lineages. This study provides an anatomical basis for further exploring different functions of PPNs.

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AnimalsFemaleMaleMiceMotor NeuronsNeural PathwaysPyramidal TractsSensory Receptor CellsSpinal Cord

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PMID25009272
PMCPMC4468139
OpenAlexW1976594162

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