Journal
MOLECULAR PAIN
Volume 18, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/17448069221094529
Keywords
Anterior cingulate cortex; Efferent projections; Whole-brain mapping; VISoR; 3D reconstruction; Mice
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- Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) [PJT-148648, PJT419286]
- National Science Foundation of China [32100810]
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This study examined the axonal outputs of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in the whole brain of adult male mice. The ACC primarily projected ipsilaterally to several regions such as the caudate putamen, ventral thalamic nucleus, zona incerta, periaqueductal gray, superior colliculus, interpolar spinal trigeminal nucleus, and dorsal medullary reticular nucleus. The ACC also projected to contralateral brain regions. These findings provide a whole-brain mapping of the ACC projections in adult male mice and are important for future studies on ACC-related brain diseases.
The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is a key cortical region that plays an important role in pain perception and emotional functions. Previous studies of the ACC projections have been collected primarily from monkeys, rabbits and rats. Due to technological advances, such as gene manipulation, recent progress has been made in our understanding of the molecular and cellular mechanisms of the ACC-related chronic pain and emotion is mainly obtained from adult mice. Few anatomic studies have examined the whole-brain projections of the ACC in adult mice. In the present study, we examined the continuous axonal outputs of the ACC in the whole brain of adult male mice. We used the virus anterograde tracing technique and an ultrahigh-speed imaging method of Volumetric Imaging with Synchronized on-the-fly-scan and Readout (VISoR). We created a three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of mouse brains. We found that the ACC projected ipsilaterally primarily to the caudate putamen (CPu), ventral thalamic nucleus, zona incerta (ZI), periaqueductal gray (PAG), superior colliculus (SC), interpolar spinal trigeminal nucleus (Sp5I), and dorsal medullary reticular nucleus (MdD). The ACC also projected to contralateral brain regions, including the ACC, reuniens thalamic nucleus (Re), PAG, Sp5I, and MdD. Our results provide a whole-brain mapping of efferent projections from the ACC in adult male mice, and these findings are critical for future studies of the molecular and synaptic mechanisms of the ACC and its related network in mouse models of brain diseases.
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