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ReviewFrontiers in neural circuits2018

The Mouse Superior Colliculus: An Emerging Model for Studying Circuit Formation and Function.

Shinya Ito, David A Feldheim

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Review in Frontiers in neural circuits, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 88 papers.

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88citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

88 citing papers in PubMed, 154 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Superior Colliculus Projections Drive Dopamine Neuron Activity and Movement But Not Value.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  16. Characterization of Auditory Responsive Neurons in the Mouse Superior Colliculus to White Noise and Frequency-Restricted Sounds.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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28 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shinya ItoSanta Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States.
David A FeldheimDepartment of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States.
University of California, Santa Cruz · US

Funding

Development of Retinal Ganglion Cell typesR01EY022117 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ · PI FELDHEIM, DAVID A · 2012 to 2020
$3.5M
Large-scale recording of visually-evoked activity in the mouse superior colliculus: functionality, topology, network properties and codingR21EY026758 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ · PI FELDHEIM, DAVID A, LITKE, ALAN MICHAEL · 2016 to 2017
$424k
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY022117NEI NIH HHS R21 EY026758
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The superior colliculus (SC) is a midbrain area where visual, auditory and somatosensory information are integrated to initiate motor commands. The SC plays a central role in visual information processing in the mouse; it receives projections from 85% to 90% of the retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). While the mouse SC has been a long-standing model used to study retinotopic map formation, a number of technological advances in mouse molecular genetic techniques, large-scale physiological recordings and SC-dependent visual behavioral assays have made the mouse an even more ideal model to understand the relationship between circuitry and behavior.

Indexed as

AnimalsMiceModels, AnimalNeuronsSuperior ColliculiVisual Pathwayselectrophysiologymouseretinotopic mapsensorimotor systemssuperior colliculus

Identifiers

PMID29487505
PMCPMC5816945
OpenAlexW2789518452

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