Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
MoE Key Laboratory for Biomedical Photonics, School of Engineering Sciences, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Nat Neurosci. 2019 Aug;22(8):1357-1370. doi: 10.1038/s41593-019-0429-9. Epub 2019 Jul 8.
The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) contains populations of GABAergic interneurons that play different roles in cognition and emotion. Their local and long-range inputs are incompletely understood. We used monosynaptic rabies viral tracers in combination with fluorescence micro-optical sectioning tomography to generate a whole-brain atlas of direct long-range inputs to GABAergic interneurons in the mPFC of male mice. We discovered that three subtypes of GABAergic interneurons in two areas of the mPFC are innervated by same upstream areas. Input from subcortical upstream areas includes cholinergic neurons from the basal forebrain and serotonergic neurons (which co-release glutamate) from the raphe nuclei. Reconstruction of single-neuron morphology revealed novel substantia innominata-anteromedial thalamic nucleus-mPFC and striatum-anteromedial thalamic nucleus-mPFC circuits. Based on the projection logic of individual neurons, we classified cortical and hippocampal input neurons into several types. This atlas provides the anatomical foundation for understanding the functional organization of the mPFC.
内侧前额叶皮层(mPFC)包含 GABA 能中间神经元群体,它们在认知和情绪中发挥不同的作用。它们的局部和远程输入尚不完全清楚。我们使用单突触狂犬病毒示踪剂,结合荧光微光学切片断层扫描,生成了雄性小鼠 mPFC 中 GABA 能中间神经元的直接远程输入的全脑图谱。我们发现,mPFC 两个区域的三种 GABA 能中间神经元均由相同的上游区域支配。来自皮质下上游区域的输入包括来自基底前脑的胆碱能神经元和来自中缝核的 5-羟色胺能神经元(其共同释放谷氨酸)。单神经元形态重建揭示了新颖的脑桥核-内侧丘脑核-mPFC 和纹状体-内侧丘脑核-mPFC 回路。基于单个神经元的投射逻辑,我们将皮质和海马输入神经元分为几种类型。该图谱为理解 mPFC 的功能组织提供了解剖学基础。