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ArticleFrontiers in neuroinformatics2023

Translating single-neuron axonal reconstructions into meso-scale connectivity statistics in the mouse somatosensory thalamus.

Nestor Timonidis, Rembrandt Bakker, Mario Rubio-Teves, Carmen Alonso-Martínez, Maria Garcia-Amado, Francisco Clascá, Paul H E Tiesinga

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Article in Frontiers in neuroinformatics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Nestor TimonidisNeuroinformatics Department, Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Rembrandt BakkerNeuroinformatics Department, Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Mario Rubio-TevesDepartment of Anatomy and Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Autónoma de Madrid University, Madrid, Spain.
Carmen Alonso-MartínezDepartment of Anatomy and Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Autónoma de Madrid University, Madrid, Spain.
Maria Garcia-AmadoDepartment of Anatomy and Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Autónoma de Madrid University, Madrid, Spain.
Francisco ClascáInstitute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA BRAIN Institute I, Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany.
Paul H E TiesingaNeuroinformatics Department, Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid · ESRadboud University Nijmegen · NLForschungszentrum Jülich · DEJülich Aachen Research Alliance · DE

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Abstract

Characterizing the connectomic and morphological diversity of thalamic neurons is key for better understanding how the thalamus relays sensory inputs to the cortex. The recent public release of complete single-neuron morphological reconstructions enables the analysis of previously inaccessible connectivity patterns from individual neurons. Here we focus on the Ventral Posteromedial (VPM) nucleus and characterize the full diversity of 257 VPM neurons, obtained by combining data from the MouseLight and Braintell projects. Neurons were clustered according to their most dominantly targeted cortical area and further subdivided by their jointly targeted areas. We obtained a 2D embedding of morphological diversity using the dissimilarity between all pairs of axonal trees. The curved shape of the embedding allowed us to characterize neurons by a 1-dimensional coordinate. The coordinate values were aligned both with the progression of soma position along the dorsal-ventral and lateral-medial axes and with that of axonal terminals along the posterior-anterior and medial-lateral axes, as well as with an increase in the number of branching points, distance from soma and branching width. Taken together, we have developed a novel workflow for linking three challenging aspects of connectomics, namely the topography, higher order connectivity patterns and morphological diversity, with VPM as a test-case. The workflow is linked to a unified access portal that contains the morphologies and integrated with 2D cortical flatmap and subcortical visualization tools. The workflow and resulting processed data have been made available in Python, and can thus be used for modeling and experimentally validating new hypotheses on thalamocortical connectivity.

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