ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2020
Descending Dopaminergic Inputs to Reticulospinal Neurons Promote Locomotor Movements.
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 10 papers.
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- Behavioral, Endocrine, and Neuronal Responses to Odors in Lampreys.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- Olfactory Projections to Locomotor Control Centers in the Sea Lamprey.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- The Mesencephalic Locomotor Region: Multiple Cell Types, Multiple Behavioral Roles, and Multiple Implications for Disease.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2024Review
- The Basal Ganglia Downstream Control of Action - An Evolutionarily Conserved Strategy.Current neuropharmacology · 2024Review
- From retina to motoneurons: A substrate for visuomotor transformation in salamanders.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2022Article
- Cholinergic Modulation of Locomotor Circuits in Vertebrates.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- The neural bases of vertebrate motor behaviour through the lens of evolution.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Olfactory-induced locomotion in lampreys.Cell and tissue research · 2022Review
- Expression of Kisspeptin 1 in the Brain of the Adult Sea LampreyLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The Dopaminergic Control of Movement-Evolutionary Considerations.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
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Abstract
Meso-diencephalic dopaminergic neurons are known to modulate locomotor behaviors through their ascending projections to the basal ganglia, which in turn project to the mesencephalic locomotor region, known to control locomotion in vertebrates. In addition to their ascending projections, dopaminergic neurons were found to increase locomotor movements through direct descending projections to the mesencephalic locomotor region and spinal cord. Intriguingly, fibers expressing tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), the rate-limiting enzyme of dopamine synthesis, were also observed around reticulospinal neurons of lampreys. We now examined the origin and the role of this innervation. Using immunofluorescence and tracing experiments, we found that fibers positive for dopamine innervate reticulospinal neurons in the four reticular nuclei of lampreys. We identified the dopaminergic source using tracer injections in reticular nuclei, which retrogradely labeled dopaminergic neurons in a caudal diencephalic nucleus (posterior tuberculum [PT]). Using voltammetry in brain preparations isolated
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