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ArticleCell reports2021

Laminar distribution and arbor density of two functional classes of thalamic inputs to primary visual cortex.

Jun Zhuang, Yun Wang, Naveen D Ouellette, Emily E Turschak, Rylan S Larsen, Kevin T Takasaki, Tanya L Daigle, Bosiljka Tasic, Jack Waters, Hongkui Zeng and 1 more

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Article in Cell reports, 2021. 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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11 authors.

Jun ZhuangAllen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA 98109, USA. Electronic address: junz@alleninstitute.org.
Yun WangAllen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Naveen D OuelletteAllen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Emily E TurschakAllen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Rylan S LarsenAllen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Kevin T TakasakiAllen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Tanya L DaigleAllen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Bosiljka TasicAllen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Jack WatersAllen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Hongkui ZengAllen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
R Clay ReidAllen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.

Funding

Viral Strategies for Functional Connectomics in the Visual SystemR01NS104949 · NINDS · ALLEN INSTITUTE · PI REID, R CLAY · 2017 to 2021
$4.5M
Axonal connectomics: dense mapping of projection patterns between cortical areasRF1MH117820 · NIMH · ALLEN INSTITUTE · PI REID, R CLAY · 2019 to 2019
$2.3M
NIMH NIH HHS RF1 MH117820NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS104949
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Motion/direction-sensitive and location-sensitive neurons are the two major functional types in mouse visual thalamus that project to the primary visual cortex (V1). It is under debate whether motion/direction-sensitive inputs preferentially target the superficial layers in V1, as opposed to the location-sensitive inputs, which preferentially target the middle layers. Here, by using calcium imaging to measure the activity of motion/direction-sensitive and location-sensitive axons in V1, we find evidence against these cell-type-specific laminar biases at the population level. Furthermore, using an approach to reconstruct axon arbors with identified in vivo response types, we show that, at the single-axon level, the motion/direction-sensitive axons project more densely to the middle layers than the location-sensitive axons. Overall, our results demonstrate that motion/direction-sensitive thalamic neurons project extensively to the middle layers of V1 at both the population and single-cell levels, providing further insight into the organization of thalamocortical projection in the mouse visual system.

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Motion PerceptionOrientationAnimalsAxonsCalcium SignalingFemaleMaleMice, TransgenicMicroscopy, ConfocalMicroscopy, Fluorescence, MultiphotonPhotic StimulationPrimary Visual CortexThalamusVisual Pathwayscell typessingle-axon reconstructionspatial-function correspondencethalamocortical

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PMID34644562
PMCPMC8572142

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