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ArticlePloS one2016

Globus Pallidus Externus Neurons Expressing parvalbumin Interconnect the Subthalamic Nucleus and Striatal Interneurons.

Arpiar Saunders, Kee Wui Huang, Bernardo Luis Sabatini

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Article in PloS one, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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59citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

59 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 119 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Arpiar SaundersDepartment of Neurobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Kee Wui HuangDepartment of Neurobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Bernardo Luis SabatiniDepartment of Neurobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USHarvard University · US

Funding

Viral ModuleP30EY012196 · NEI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI MARGARET S LIVINGSTONE · 1998 to 2026
$21.3M
Super-Resolution ImagingP30NS072030 · NINDS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI REGEHR, WADE G · 2011 to 2020
$5.8M
Dendritic Ca signals in striatal medium spiny neuronsR01NS046579 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI SABATINI, BERNARDO L · 2004 to 2016
$5.0M
Action and interaction of ionotropic and metabotropic neurotransmissionR37NS046579 · NINDS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI SABATINI, BERNARDO L · 2018 to 2024
$4.6M
Control of Glutamatergic Transmission by Acetylcholine Release in StriatumF31MH093026 · NIMH · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI OLDENBURG, IAN ANTON · 2011 to 2013
$98k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNEI NIH HHS P30 EY012196NEI NIH HHS P30EY012196NIMH NIH HHS F31 MH093026NIMH NIH HHS F31 MH093026-01A1NINDS NIH HHS P30 NS072030NINDS NIH HHS P30NS072030NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS046579NINDS NIH HHS R37 NS046579
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The globus pallidus externus (GP) is a nucleus of the basal ganglia (BG), containing GABAergic projection neurons that arborize widely throughout the BG, thalamus and cortex. Ongoing work seeks to map axonal projection patterns from GP cell types, as defined by their electrophysiological and molecular properties. Here we use transgenic mice and recombinant viruses to characterize parvalbumin expressing (PV+) GP neurons within the BG circuit. We confirm that PV+ neurons 1) make up ~40% of the GP neurons 2) exhibit fast-firing spontaneous activity and 3) provide the major axonal arborization to the STN and substantia nigra reticulata/compacta (SNr/c). PV+ neurons also innervate the striatum. Retrograde labeling identifies ~17% of pallidostriatal neurons as PV+, at least a subset of which also innervate the STN and SNr. Optogenetic experiments in acute brain slices demonstrate that the PV+ pallidostriatal axons make potent inhibitory synapses on low threshold spiking (LTS) and fast-spiking interneurons (FS) in the striatum, but rarely on spiny projection neurons (SPNs). Thus PV+ GP neurons are synaptically positioned to directly coordinate activity between BG input nuclei, the striatum and STN, and thalamic-output from the SNr.

Indexed as

AnimalsAxonsBrain MappingGlobus PallidusMiceMice, TransgenicParvalbuminsSubthalamic NucleusSynapsesParvalbumins

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PMID26905595
PMCPMC4764347
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