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ArticleJournal of neurochemistry2021

Diverse GABAergic neurons organize into subtype-specific sublaminae in the ventral lateral geniculate nucleus.

Ubadah Sabbagh, Gubbi Govindaiah, Rachana D Somaiya, Ryan V Ha, Jessica C Wei, William Guido, Michael A Fox

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Article in Journal of neurochemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ubadah SabbaghCenter for Neurobiology Research, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech Carilion, Roanoke, VA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5324-0265
Gubbi GovindaiahDepartment of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA.
Rachana D SomaiyaCenter for Neurobiology Research, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech Carilion, Roanoke, VA, USA.
Ryan V HaSchool of Neuroscience, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
Jessica C WeiNeuroSURF, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech Carilion, Roanoke, VA, USA.
William GuidoDepartment of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA.
Michael A FoxCenter for Neurobiology Research, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech Carilion, Roanoke, VA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1649-7782
Biomedical Research Institute · USUniversity of Louisville · USVirginia Tech · US

Funding

FUNCTIONAL STATE OF DEVELOPING RETINOGENICULATE SYNAPSER01EY012716 · NEI · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI GUIDO, WILLIAM · 2001 to 2021
$6.9M
Regulation of nuclei-specific retinogeniculate targetingR01EY021222 · NEI · VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV · PI FOX, MICHAEL A · 2011 to 2021
$3.8M
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute Translational Neurobiology Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (VTCRI neuroSURF)R25NS105141 · NINDS · VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV · PI FOX, MICHAEL A · 2018 to 2022
$540k
Retinal inputs signal through astrocytes to recruit interneurons into visual thalamusR21EY030568 · NEI · VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV · PI FOX, MICHAEL A · 2019 to 2020
$443k
The development of subnetworks of the TRNK00NS113459 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI SABBAGH, UBADAH · 2021 to 2024
$381k
Identification of retinogeniculate circuits in ventral thalamusF99NS113459 · NINDS · VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV · PI SABBAGH, UBADAH · 2019 to 2020
$76k
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY012716NEI NIH HHS R01 EY021222NEI NIH HHS R21 EY030568NINDS NIH HHS F99 NS113459NINDS NIH HHS K00 NS113459NINDS NIH HHS R25 NS105141
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the visual system, retinal axons convey visual information from the outside world to dozens of distinct retinorecipient brain regions and organize that information at several levels, including either at the level of retinal afferents, cytoarchitecture of intrinsic retinorecipient neurons, or a combination of the two. Two major retinorecipient nuclei which are densely innervated by retinal axons are the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus, which is important for classical image-forming vision, and ventral LGN (vLGN), which is associated with non-image-forming vision. The neurochemistry, cytoarchitecture, and retinothalamic connectivity in vLGN remain unresolved, raising fundamental questions of how it receives and processes visual information. To shed light on these important questions, used in situ hybridization, immunohistochemistry, and genetic reporter lines to identify and characterize novel neuronal cell types in mouse vLGN. Not only were a high percentage of these cells GABAergic, we discovered transcriptomically distinct GABAergic cell types reside in the two major laminae of vLGN, the retinorecipient, external vLGN (vLGNe) and the non-retinorecipient, internal vLGN (vLGNi). Furthermore, within vLGNe, we identified transcriptionally distinct subtypes of GABAergic cells that are distributed into four adjacent sublaminae. Using trans-synaptic viral tracing and in vitro electrophysiology, we found cells in each these vLGNe sublaminae receive monosynaptic inputs from retina. These results not only identify novel subtypes of GABAergic cells in vLGN, they suggest the subtype-specific laminar distribution of retinorecipient cells in vLGNe may be important for receiving, processing, and transmitting light-derived signals in parallel channels of the subcortical visual system.

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AnimalsAxonsElectrophysiological PhenomenaGABAergic NeuronsGeniculate BodiesImmunohistochemistryLightMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLPatch-Clamp TechniquesRetinaSynapsesTranscriptomeVision, OcularVisual PathwayscircuitGABAergicgeniculateretinathalamusvisual

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