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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2021

Superior Colliculus Controls the Activity of the Rostromedial Tegmental Nuclei in an Asymmetrical Manner.

Kamil Pradel, Gniewosz Drwiȩga, Tomasz Błasiak

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 29% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Superior Colliculus Controls the Activity of the Substantia Nigra Pars Compacta and Ventral Tegmental Area in an Asymmetrical Manner.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Kamil PradelDepartment of Neurophysiology and Chronobiology, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, 30-387, Krakow, Poland kamil.pradel@gmail.com tomasz.blasiak@uj.edu.pl.ORCID 0000-0002-8185-9129
Gniewosz DrwiȩgaDepartment of Neurophysiology and Chronobiology, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, 30-387, Krakow, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-1968-2238
Tomasz BłasiakDepartment of Neurophysiology and Chronobiology, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, 30-387, Krakow, Poland kamil.pradel@gmail.com tomasz.blasiak@uj.edu.pl.ORCID 0000-0002-3772-5879
Jagiellonian University · PL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dopaminergic (DA) neurons of the midbrain are involved in controlling orienting and approach of animals toward relevant external stimuli. The firing of DA neurons is regulated by many brain structures; however, the sensory input is provided predominantly by the ipsilateral superior colliculus (SC). It is suggested that SC also innervates the contralateral rostromedial tegmental nucleus (RMTg)-the main inhibitory input to DA neurons. Therefore, this study aimed to describe the physiology and anatomy of the SC-RMTg pathway. To investigate the anatomic connections within the circuit of interest, anterograde, retrograde, and transsynaptic tract-tracing studies were performed on male Sprague Dawley rats. We have observed that RMTg is monosynaptically innervated predominantly by the lateral parts of the intermediate layer of the contralateral SC. To study the physiology of this neuronal pathway, we conducted

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AnimalsElectric StimulationFunctional LateralityMaleMotivationMotor ActivityNeural PathwaysNeuronsOptogeneticsOrientationPhotic StimulationPresynaptic TerminalsRatsRats, Sprague-DawleySuperior ColliculiSynapsesdopaminerostromedial tegmental nucleussubstantia nigra pars compactasuperior colliculusventral tegmental area

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PMID33741724
PMCPMC8176749
OpenAlexW3137186737

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