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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2017

Maturation, Behavioral Activation, and Connectivity of Adult-Born Medium Spiny Neurons in a Striatal Song Nucleus.

Jennifer Kosubek-Langer, Lydia Schulze, Constance Scharff

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Change of Spiny Neuron Structure in the Basal Ganglia Song Circuit and Its Regulation by miR-9 during Song Development.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jennifer Kosubek-LangerAnimal Behavior, Freie Universität BerlinBerlin, Germany.
Lydia SchulzeAnimal Behavior, Freie Universität BerlinBerlin, Germany.
Constance ScharffAnimal Behavior, Freie Universität BerlinBerlin, Germany.
Freie Universität Berlin · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurogenesis continues in the adult songbird brain. Many telencephalic song control regions incorporate new neurons into their existing circuits in adulthood. One song nucleus that receives many new neurons is Area X. Because this striatal region is crucial for song learning and song maintenance the recruitment of new neurons into Area X could influence these processes. As an entry point into addressing this possibility, we investigated the maturation and connectivity within the song circuit and behavioral activation of newly generated Area X neurons. Using BrdU birth dating and virally mediated GFP expression we followed adult-generated neurons from their place of birth in the ventricle to their place of incorporation into Area X. We show that newborn neurons receive glutamatergic input from pallial/cortical song nuclei. Additionally, backfills revealed that the new neurons connect to pallidal-like projection neurons that innervate the thalamus. Using

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adult neurogenesisArea Xbasal gangliaDARPP-32dopamineEGR-1songbird

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PMID28638318
PMCPMC5461290
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