Dual medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus projecting neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus
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Viena, Tatiana D.
Rasch, Gabriela E.
Allen, Timothy A.
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March 13, 2022
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Viena, Tatiana D., Rasch, Gabriela E. and Allen, Timothy A. 2022. "Dual medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus projecting neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus."
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The paraventricular nucleus (PVT) of the midline thalamus is a critical higher-order cortico-thalamo-cortical integration site that plays a critical role in various behaviors including reward seeking, cue saliency, and emotional memory. Anatomical studies have shown that PVT projects to both medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and hippocampus (HC). However, dual mPFC-HC projecting neurons which could serve a role in synchronizing mPFC and HC activity during PVT-dependent behaviors, have not been explored. Here we used a dual retrograde adenoassociated virus (AAV) tracing approach to characterize the location and proportion of different projection populations that send collaterals to mPFC and/or ventral hippocampus (vHC) in rats. Additionally, we examined the distribution of calcium binding proteins calretinin (CR) and calbindin (CB) with respect to these projection populations in PVT. We found that PVT contains separate populations of cells that project to mPFC, vHC, and those that innervate both regions. Interestingly, dual mPFC-HC projecting cells expressed neither CR nor CB. Topographically, CB+ and CR+ containing cells clustered around dual projecting neurons in PVT. These results are consistent with the features of dual mPFC-vHC projecting cells in the nucleus reuniens (RE) and suggestive of a functional mPFC-PVT-vHC system that may support mPFC-vHC interactions in PVT-dependent behaviors.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-022-02478-x
