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Long‐range connectivity of mouse primary somatosensory barrel cortex

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Aronoff, Rachel, Matyas, Ferenc, Mateo, Celine, Ciron, Carine, Schneider, Bernard, Petersen, Carl C.H.·2010·European Journal of Neuroscience

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The primary somatosensory barrel cortex processes tactile vibrissae information, allowing rodents to actively perceive spatial and textural features of their immediate surroundings. Each whisker on the snout is individually represented in the neocortex by an anatomically identifiable ‘barrel’ specified by the segregated termination zones of thalamocortical axons of the ventroposterior medial nucleus, which provide the primary sensory input to the neocortex. The sensory information is subsequently processed within local synaptically connected neocortical microcircuits, which have begun to be investigated in quantitative detail. In addition to these local synaptic microcircuits, the excitatory pyramidal neurons of the barrel cortex send and receive long‐range glutamatergic axonal projections to and from a wide variety of specific brain regions. Much less is known about these long‐range connections and their contribution to sensory processing. Here, we review current knowledge of the long‐range axonal input and output of the mouse primary somatosensory barrel cortex. Prominent reciprocal projections are found between primary somatosensory cortex and secondary somatosensory cortex, motor cortex, perirhinal cortex and thalamus. Primary somatosensory barrel cortex also projects strongly to striatum, thalamic reticular nucleus, zona incerta, anterior pretectal nucleus, superior colliculus, pons, red nucleus and spinal trigeminal brain stem nuclei. These long‐range connections of the barrel cortex with other specific cortical and subcortical brain regions are likely to play a crucial role in sensorimotor integration, sensory perception and associative learning.

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  • Sensory S1 and S2 cortices have strongly lateralized ipsilateral outputs and are densely and reciprocally interconnected, forming a top-down feedback loop that exhibits choice-related activity.

    “In contrast, sensory S1 and S2 cortices have strongly lateralized ipsilateral outputs (43, 59) and are densely and reciprocally interconnected (60) forming a top–down feedback loop that exhibits choice-related activity (10, 11, 22–25).”
  • The somatosensory pathway is composed of primary and secondary somatosensory cortical areas (SSp and SSs) and thalamic nuclei VPM, VPL and PO.

    “Similarly, the somatosensory pathway is composed of primary and secondary somatosensory cortical areas (SSp and SSs) and thalamic nuclei VPM, VPL and PO48,74”

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Authors
Aronoff, R., Matyas, F., Mateo, C., Ciron, C., Schneider, B., & Petersen, C. C. H.
Affiliations
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
Corresponding author
Petersen, Carl C.H.
Venue
European Journal of Neuroscience
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2010-06
Volume
31
Issue
12
Pages
2221-2233
ISSN
  • 0953-816X (ISSN-L)
  • 1460-9568
OpenAlex
W1954127107
Cited by
323
References
112
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FWCI
0.94
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • European Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
  • Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
  • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
Keywords
long-range connectivity, mice, whisker representation, thalamocortical connections, secondary somatosensory cortex, reciprocal projections, striatum, thalamic reticular nucleus, superior colliculus, sensorimotor integration, tactile perception, glutamatergic projections
MeSH terms
Animals, Brain Mapping, Humans, Neural Pathways, Somatosensory Cortex, Staining and Labeling, Thalamus, Touch, Vibrissae, Mice

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