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ArticleMolecular psychiatry2025

Projection-specific circuits of retrosplenial cortex with differential contributions to spatial cognition.

Xiaoxiao Lin, Ali Ghafuri, Xiaojun Chen, Musab Kazmi, Douglas A Nitz, Xiangmin Xu

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Article in Molecular psychiatry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Xiaoxiao LinDepartment of Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.
Ali GhafuriDepartment of Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.ORCID 0009-0007-7401-8640
Xiaojun ChenDepartment of Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.ORCID 0009-0007-9098-1680
Musab KazmiDepartment of Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.
Douglas A NitzDepartment of Cognitive Science, University of California, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, 92093, USA. dnitz@ucsd.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-3354-2450
Xiangmin XuDepartment of Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA. xiangmix@uci.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5828-1533

Funding

Cell-type-specific neural circuit connectomes in the mouse models of aging and Alzheimer's diseaseU01AG076791 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI Kim Green, ERAN A MUKAMEL · 2022 to 2026
$13.6M
Single-cell transcriptomic and epigenomic analysis of brain cell vulnerabilities to tauopathies in early AD impacted brain regionsR01AG082127 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI MICHAEL D KOOB, Bing Ren · 2023 to 2026
$8.1M
Genetically engineered anterograde monosynaptic viral tracers for multi-species neural circuit analysisRF1MH120020 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI HORWITZ, GREGORY D, SANDRI-GOLDIN, ROZANNE M · 2019 to 2019
$4.3M
Neural circuit mechanisms underlying AD-related memory impairmentsRF1AG065675 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI XU, XIANGMIN · 2020 to 2020
$1.9M
Hippocampal inhibitory neuronal circuit organizationR01NS078434 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI XU, XIANGMIN · 2012 to 2016
$1.6M
Neural circuit mechanisms underlying AD-related memory impairmentsR01AG065675 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI XU, XIANGMIN · 2024 to 2024
$480k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retrosplenial cortex (RSC) is a brain region involved in neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. It has reciprocal connections with a diverse set of cortical and subcortical brain regions, but the afferent structure and behavioral function of circuits defined by its projection-specific sub-populations have yet to be determined. The corticocortical connections between RSC and secondary motor cortex (M2), as well as corticothalamic connections between RSC and anterodorsal thalamus (AD) have been hypothesized to function as semi-independent, but parallel pathways that impact spatial information processing in distinct ways. We used retrograde and anterograde viral tracers and monosynaptic retrograde rabies virus to quantitatively characterize and compare the afferent and efferent distributions of retrosplenial neuron sub-populations projecting to M2 and AD. AD-projecting and M2-projecting RSC neurons overlap in their collateral projections to other brain regions, but not in their projections to M2 and AD, respectively. Compared with AD-projecting RSC neurons, M2-projecting RSC neurons received much greater afferent input from the dorsal subiculum, AD, lateral dorsal and lateral posterior thalamus, and somatosensory cortex. AD-projecting RSC neurons received greater input from the anterior cingulate cortex and medial septum. We performed chemogenetic inhibition of M2- and AD-projecting RSC neurons and examined its impact on object-location memory, object-recognition, open-field exploration, and place-action association. Our findings indicate that inhibition of M2-projecting RSC neurons impairs object location memory as well as place-action association, while the RSC to AD pathway impacts only object-location memory. The findings indicate that RSC is composed of semi-independent circuits distinguishable by their afferent/efferent distributions and differing in the cognitive functions to which they contribute.

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Cerebral CortexCognitionAnimalsGyrus CinguliMaleMiceMotor CortexNeural PathwaysNeuronsRabies virusRatsSomatosensory CortexSpace PerceptionThalamus

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