Wang Junjun, Sun Pei, Lv Xiaohua, Jin Sen, Li Anan, Kuang Jianxia, Li Ning, Gang Yadong, Guo Rui, Zeng Shaoqun, Xu Fuqiang, Zhang Yu-Hui
Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China.
MoE Key Laboratory for Biomedical Photonics, School of Engineering Sciences, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China.
Neurosci Bull. 2021 Apr;37(4):461-477. doi: 10.1007/s12264-020-00616-1. Epub 2020 Dec 29.
The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is involved in diverse brain functions via its extensive projections to multiple target regions. There is a growing understanding of the overall outputs of the OFC at the population level, but reports of the projection patterns of individual OFC neurons across different cortical layers remain rare. Here, by combining neuronal sparse and bright labeling with a whole-brain florescence imaging system (fMOST), we obtained an uninterrupted three-dimensional whole-brain dataset and achieved the full morphological reconstruction of 25 OFC pyramidal neurons. We compared the whole-brain projection targets of these individual OFC neurons in different cortical layers as well as in the same cortical layer. We found cortical layer-dependent projections characterized by divergent patterns for information delivery. Our study not only provides a structural basis for understanding the principles of laminar organizations in the OFC, but also provides clues for future functional and behavioral studies on OFC pyramidal neurons.
眶额皮质(OFC)通过其向多个目标区域的广泛投射参与多种脑功能。人们对群体水平上OFC的整体输出有了越来越多的了解,但关于单个OFC神经元在不同皮质层的投射模式的报道仍然很少。在这里,通过将神经元稀疏和明亮标记与全脑荧光成像系统(fMOST)相结合,我们获得了一个不间断的三维全脑数据集,并实现了25个OFC锥体神经元的完整形态重建。我们比较了这些单个OFC神经元在不同皮质层以及同一皮质层中的全脑投射目标。我们发现了以发散模式为特征的皮质层依赖性投射,用于信息传递。我们的研究不仅为理解OFC中层状组织的原理提供了结构基础,也为未来关于OFC锥体神经元的功能和行为研究提供了线索。
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