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ArticleJournal of chemical neuroanatomy2019

Monosynaptic tracing: a step-by-step protocol.

Thomas K Lavin, Lei Jin, Ian R Wickersham

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Article in Journal of chemical neuroanatomy, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Multimodal analysis reveals cellular diversity and divergent circuits of the zona incerta.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  4. Dopamine induces fear extinction by activating the reward-responding amygdala neurons.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. Monosynaptic Tracing in Developing Circuits Using Modified Rabies Virus.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  13. Rabies virus-based barcoded neuroanatomy resolved by single-cell RNA andbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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  16. Structure and Function of Neuronal Circuits Linking Ventrolateral Preoptic Nucleus and Lateral Hypothalamic Area.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  18. "Self-inactivating" rabies viruses are susceptible to loss of their intended attenuating modification.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Thomas K LavinMcGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States.
Lei JinMcGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States.
Ian R WickershamMcGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States. Electronic address: wickersham@mit.edu.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · USMcGovern Institute for Brain Research · US

Funding

Generation of novel cell type specific mouse genetic toolsU19MH114830 · NIMH · ALLEN INSTITUTE · PI NGAI, JOHN J. · 2017 to 2021
$64.7M
Anatomical characterization of neuronal cell types of the mouse brainU01MH114829 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI ASCOLI, GIORGIO A, DONG, HONG-WEI · 2017 to 2021
$13.9M
Novel technologies for nontoxic transsynaptic tracingU01MH106018 · NIMH · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI WICKERSHAM, IAN R · 2014 to 2016
$2.5M
NIMH NIH HHS U01 MH106018NIMH NIH HHS U01 MH114829NIMH NIH HHS U19 MH114830
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Monosynaptic tracing using deletion-mutant rabies virus allows whole-brain mapping of neurons that are directly presynaptic to a targeted population of neurons. The most common and robust way of implementing it is to use Cre mouse lines in combination with Cre-dependent adeno-associated viral vectors for expression of the required genes in the targeted neurons before subsequent injection of the rabies virus. Here we present a step-by-step protocol for performing such experiments using first-generation (ΔG) rabies viral vectors.

Indexed as

Neuronal Tract-TracersBrainNeuroanatomical Tract-Tracing TechniquesNeuronsRabies virusNeuronal Tract-Tracers

Identifiers

PMID31408693
PMCPMC11526806
OpenAlexW2967743203

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