Landemard Agnès, Krumin Michael, Harris Kenneth D, Carandini Matteo
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London.
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London.
bioRxiv. 2025 Jul 4:2025.07.01.662538. doi: 10.1101/2025.07.01.662538.
The supply of blood to brain tissue is thought to depend on the overall neural activity in that tissue, and this dependence is thought to differ across brain regions and across levels of arousal. Studies supporting these views, however, measured neural activity as a bulk quantity, and related it to blood supply following disparate events in different regions. Here we measure fluctuations in neuronal activity and blood volume associated with the same events across the mouse brain, and find that their relationship is consistent across brain regions but differs in two opposing brainwide neural populations. Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI) revealed that whisking, a marker of arousal, is associated with brainwide fluctuations in blood volume. Simultaneous fUSI and Neuropixels recordings in cortex and hippocampus showed that neurons that increase vs. decrease activity with whisking have distinct hemodynamic response functions. Brainwide Neuropixels recordings revealed that these two opposing populations are present in the entire brain. When summed, their contributions predicted blood volume across brain regions better than predictions from bulk neural activity. The mouse brain thus contains two neural populations with opposite relation to brain state and distinct relationships to blood supply, which together account for brainwide fluctuations in blood volume.
脑组织的血液供应被认为取决于该组织中的整体神经活动,并且这种依赖性被认为在不同脑区以及不同觉醒水平之间存在差异。然而,支持这些观点的研究将神经活动作为一个总量进行测量,并将其与不同区域不同事件后的血液供应联系起来。在这里,我们测量了小鼠全脑与相同事件相关的神经元活动和血容量的波动,发现它们之间的关系在不同脑区是一致的,但在两个相反的全脑神经元群体中有所不同。功能超声成像(fUSI)显示,作为觉醒标志的 whisking 与全脑血容量的波动有关。在皮层和海马体中同时进行的 fUSI 和 Neuropixels 记录表明,随着 whisking 活动增加和减少的神经元具有不同的血液动力学反应功能。全脑 Neuropixels 记录显示,这两个相反的群体存在于整个大脑中。将它们的贡献相加后,与基于总体神经活动的预测相比,它们对不同脑区血容量的预测效果更好。因此,小鼠大脑包含两个与脑状态关系相反且与血液供应关系不同的神经元群体,它们共同解释了全脑血容量的波动。
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