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SUBMITTER: El-Boustani S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7335197 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
El-Boustani Sami S Sermet B Semihcan BS Foustoukos Georgios G Oram Tess B TB Yizhar Ofer O Petersen Carl C H CCH
Nature communications 20200703 1
Subdivisions of mouse whisker somatosensory thalamus project to cortex in a region-specific and layer-specific manner. However, a clear anatomical dissection of these pathways and their functional properties during whisker sensation is lacking. Here, we use anterograde trans-synaptic viral vectors to identify three specific thalamic subpopulations based on their connectivity with brainstem. The principal trigeminal nucleus innervates ventral posterior medial thalamus, which conveys whisker-selec ...[more]