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ArticleNeurobiology of disease2026

Subregion-specific input organization of prefrontal-projecting basal forebrain cholinergic neurons and weakened striatal-NBM inhibitory transmission in 5xFAD mice.

Yufei Huang, Xueyi Xie, Michael Fernaine, Ziyi Li, Xuehua Wang, Jun Wang

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Yufei HuangDepartment of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Bryan, TX 77807, USA; Institute for Neuroscience, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
Xueyi XieDepartment of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Bryan, TX 77807, USA.
Michael FernaineDepartment of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Bryan, TX 77807, USA.
Ziyi LiDepartment of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Bryan, TX 77807, USA; Institute for Neuroscience, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
Xuehua WangDepartment of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Bryan, TX 77807, USA.
Jun WangDepartment of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Bryan, TX 77807, USA; Institute for Neuroscience, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA. Electronic address: jwang188@tamu.edu.

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Basal forebrain cholinergic neurons regulate cortical activity and cognition and are vulnerable in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the upstream circuits controlling projection-defined basal forebrain cholinergic populations remain incompletely understood. Here, we used projection-specific rabies-mediated monosynaptic tracing to map whole-brain inputs to medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)-projecting cholinergic neurons in the nucleus basalis of Meynert (NBM) and horizontal limb of the diagonal band of Broca (HDB). mPFC-projecting NBM and HDB cholinergic neurons received broad but distinct input patterns. NBM cholinergic neurons received prominent striatal input, including input from D1-expressing medium spiny neurons, whereas HDB cholinergic neurons showed proportionally weaker striatal input and broader non-striatal contributions. Optogenetic electrophysiology confirmed that striatal inputs formed monosynaptic GABAergic inhibitory synapses onto NBM cholinergic neurons. This inhibitory transmission was weakened in 5xFAD mice, indicating impairment of a striatal-NBM inhibitory circuit in an AD mouse model. Together, these findings reveal subregion-specific input organization of mPFC-projecting basal forebrain cholinergic neurons and identify an amyloid-associated vulnerability of the striatal-NBM circuit.

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Basal forebrainCholinergic projection neuronsDirect-pathway medium spiny neurons (dMSNs)Medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)Striatum

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