RRC ID 65967
著者 Zhang BB, Yao YY, Zhang HF, Kawakami K, Du JL.
タイトル Left Habenula Mediates Light-Preference Behavior in Zebrafish via an Asymmetrical Visual Pathway.
ジャーナル Neuron
Abstract Habenula (Hb) plays critical roles in emotion-related behaviors through integrating inputs mainly from the limbic system and basal ganglia. However, Hb also receives inputs from multiple sensory modalities. The function and underlying neural circuit of Hb sensory inputs remain unknown. Using larval zebrafish, we found that left dorsal Hb (dHb, a homolog of mammalian medial Hb) mediates light-preference behavior by receiving visual inputs from a specific subset of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) through eminentia thalami (EmT). Loss- and gain-of-function manipulations showed that left, but not right, dHb activities, which encode environmental illuminance, are necessary and sufficient for light-preference behavior. At circuit level, left dHb neurons receive excitatory monosynaptic inputs from bilateral EmT, and EmT neurons are contacted mainly by sustained ON-type RGCs at the arborization field 4 of retinorecipient brain areas. Our findings discover a previously unidentified asymmetrical visual pathway to left Hb and its function in mediating light-preference behavior. VIDEO ABSTRACT.
巻・号 93(4)
ページ 914-928.e4
公開日 2017-2-22
DOI 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.01.011
PII S0896-6273(17)30035-1
PMID 28190643
MeSH Animals Animals, Genetically Modified Behavior, Animal Body Patterning / physiology* Central Nervous System / metabolism Larva / metabolism Light* Neurons / metabolism* Thalamus / metabolism Visual Pathways / metabolism* Zebrafish Zebrafish Proteins / metabolism
IF 14.415
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