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ArticleNature communications2020

Impact of visual callosal pathway is dependent upon ipsilateral thalamus.

Vishnudev Ramachandra, Verena Pawlak, Damian J Wallace, Jason N D Kerr

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Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Vishnudev RamachandraDepartment of Behavior and Brain Organization, Research Center caesar, 53175, Bonn, Germany.
Verena PawlakDepartment of Behavior and Brain Organization, Research Center caesar, 53175, Bonn, Germany.
Damian J WallaceDepartment of Behavior and Brain Organization, Research Center caesar, 53175, Bonn, Germany.
Jason N D KerrDepartment of Behavior and Brain Organization, Research Center caesar, 53175, Bonn, Germany. jason.kerr@caesar.de.
Brain (Germany) · DECenter of Advanced European Studies and Research · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The visual callosal pathway, which reciprocally connects the primary visual cortices, is thought to play a pivotal role in cortical binocular processing. In rodents, the functional role of this pathway is largely unknown. Here, we measure visual cortex spiking responses to visual stimulation using population calcium imaging and functionally isolate visual pathways originating from either eye. We show that callosal pathway inhibition significantly reduced spiking responses in binocular and monocular neurons and abolished spiking in many cases. However, once isolated by blocking ipsilateral visual thalamus, callosal pathway activation alone is not sufficient to drive evoked cortical responses. We show that the visual callosal pathway relays activity from both eyes via both ipsilateral and contralateral visual pathways to monocular and binocular neurons and works in concert with ipsilateral thalamus in generating stimulus evoked activity. This shows a much greater role of the rodent callosal pathway in cortical processing than previously thought.

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AnimalsCalciumCorpus CallosumElectric StimulationElectrophysiological PhenomenaEyeMaleNeuronsPhotic StimulationRatsThalamusVisual CortexVisual PathwaysCalcium

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PMID32313167
PMCPMC7171107
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