Normal connectivity of thalamorecipient networks in barrel equivalents of the reeler cortex
2023 | journal article. A publication with affiliation to the University of Göttingen.
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- Authors
- Meeuwissen, Anouk J M; Möck, Martin; Staiger, Jochen F; Guy, Julien
- Abstract
- Abstract The reeler mouse mutant has long served as a primary model to study the development of cortical layers, which is governed by the extracellular glycoprotein reelin secreted by Cajal–Retzius cells. Because layers organize local and long-range circuits for sensory processing, we investigated whether intracortical connectivity is compromised by reelin deficiency in this model. We generated a transgenic reeler mutant (we used both sexes), in which layer 4-fated spiny stellate neurons are labeled with tdTomato and applied slice electrophysiology and immunohistochemistry with synaptotagmin-2 to study the circuitry between the major thalamorecipient cell types, namely excitatory spiny stellate and inhibitory fast-spiking (putative basket) cells. In the reeler mouse, spiny stellate cells are clustered into barrel equivalents. In these clusters, we found that intrinsic physiology, connectivity, and morphology of spiny stellate and fast-spiking, putative basket cells does not significantly differ between reeler and controls. Properties of unitary connections, including connection probability, were very comparable in excitatory cell pairs and spiny stellate/fast-spiking cell pairs, suggesting an intact excitation-inhibition balance at the first stage of cortical sensory information processing. Together with previous findings, this suggests that thalamorecipient circuitry in the barrel cortex develops and functions independently of proper cortical lamination and postnatal reelin signaling.
- Issue Date
- 2023
- Journal
- Cerebral Cortex
- ISSN
- 1047-3211
- eISSN
- 1460-2199
- Language
- English