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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2020

Circuit-Specific Plasticity of Callosal Inputs Underlies Cortical Takeover.

Emily Petrus, Sarah Dembling, Ted Usdin, John T R Isaac, Alan P Koretsky

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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18 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Post-Critical Period Transcriptional and Physiological Adaptations of Primary Sensory Cortex after Sensory Loss.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  7. Symmetry in Frontal But Not Motor and Somatosensory Cortical Projections.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  9. Symmetry in frontal but not motor and somatosensory cortical projections.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  10. Cortical Reorganization after Limb Loss: Bridging the Gap between Basic Science and Clinical Recovery.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Emily PetrusLaboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 emily.petrus@nih.gov.ORCID 0000-0002-1364-1718
Sarah DemblingLaboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
Ted UsdinSystems Neuroscience Imaging Resource, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.ORCID 0000-0003-3813-0049
John T R IsaacJanssen Neuroscience, J&J Innovations, London W1G 0BG, United Kingdom.
Alan P KoretskyLaboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.ORCID 0000-0002-8085-4756
National Institutes of Health · USJanssen (United Kingdom) · GBNational Institute of Mental Health · US

Funding

NINDS NIH HHS K99 NS112612
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Injury induces synaptic, circuit, and systems reorganization. After unilateral amputation or stroke, this functional loss disrupts the interhemispheric interaction between intact and deprived somatomotor cortices to recruit deprived cortex in response to intact limb stimulation. This recruitment has been implicated in enhanced intact sensory function. In other patients, maladaptive consequences such as phantom limb pain can occur. We used unilateral whisker denervation in male and female mice to detect circuitry alterations underlying interhemispheric cortical reorganization. Enhanced synaptic strength from the intact cortex via the corpus callosum (CC) onto deep neurons in deprived primary somatosensory barrel cortex (S1BC) has previously been detected. It was hypothesized that specificity in this plasticity may depend on to which area these neurons projected. Increased connectivity to somatomotor areas such as contralateral S1BC, primary motor cortex (M1) and secondary somatosensory cortex (S2) may underlie beneficial adaptations, while increased connectivity to pain areas like anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) might underlie maladaptive pain phenotypes. Neurons from the deprived S1BC that project to intact S1BC were hyperexcitable, had stronger responses and reduced inhibitory input to CC stimulation. M1-projecting neurons also showed increases in excitability and CC input strength that was offset with enhanced inhibition. S2 and ACC-projecting neurons showed no changes in excitability or CC input. These results demonstrate that subgroups of output neurons undergo dramatic and specific plasticity after peripheral injury. The changes in S1BC-projecting neurons likely underlie enhanced reciprocal connectivity of S1BC after unilateral deprivation consistent with the model that interhemispheric takeover supports intact whisker processing.

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Neuronal PlasticityAfferent PathwaysAnimalsCorpus CallosumFemaleFunctional LateralityMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNeuronsSomatosensory CortexVibrissaecell specificitycorpus callosuminjury plasticityinterhemispheric plasticitysomatosensory system

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PMID32913109
PMCPMC7531555
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