[HTML][HTML] What is a cell type and how to define it?

H Zeng - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Cell types are the basic functional units of an organism. Cell types exhibit diverse
phenotypic properties at multiple levels, making them challenging to define, categorize, and …

Circuit organization of the rodent medial prefrontal cortex

PG Anastasiades, AG Carter - Trends in neurosciences, 2021 - cell.com
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) orchestrates higher brain function and becomes disrupted in
many mental health disorders. The rodent medial PFC (mPFC) possesses an enormous …

[HTML][HTML] Spatially resolved cell atlas of the mouse primary motor cortex by MERFISH

M Zhang, SW Eichhorn, B Zingg, Z Yao, K Cotter… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
A mammalian brain is composed of numerous cell types organized in an intricate manner to
form functional neural circuits. Single-cell RNA sequencing allows systematic identification …

Morphological diversity of single neurons in molecularly defined cell types

H Peng, P **e, L Liu, X Kuang, Y Wang, L Qu, H Gong… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Dendritic and axonal morphology reflects the input and output of neurons and is a defining
feature of neuronal types,, yet our knowledge of its diversity remains limited. Here, to …

Human neocortical expansion involves glutamatergic neuron diversification

J Berg, SA Sorensen, JT Ting, JA Miller, T Chartrand… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The neocortex is disproportionately expanded in human compared with mouse,, both in its
total volume relative to subcortical structures and in the proportion occupied by …

Survey of spiking in the mouse visual system reveals functional hierarchy

JH Siegle, X Jia, S Durand, S Gale, C Bennett… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The anatomy of the mammalian visual system, from the retina to the neocortex, is organized
hierarchically. However, direct observation of cellular-level functional interactions across this …

Single-neuron projectome of mouse prefrontal cortex

L Gao, S Liu, L Gou, Y Hu, Y Liu, L Deng, D Ma… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Prefrontal cortex (PFC) is the cognitive center that integrates and regulates global brain
activity. However, the whole-brain organization of PFC axon projections remains poorly …

The Allen mouse brain common coordinate framework: a 3D reference atlas

Q Wang, SL Ding, Y Li, J Royall, D Feng, P Lesnar… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Recent large-scale collaborations are generating major surveys of cell types and
connections in the mouse brain, collecting large amounts of data across modalities, spatial …

Hierarchical organization of cortical and thalamic connectivity

JA Harris, S Mihalas, KE Hirokawa, JD Whitesell… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The mammalian cortex is a laminar structure containing many areas and cell types that are
densely interconnected in complex ways, and for which generalizable principles of …

Spontaneous behaviors drive multidimensional, brainwide activity

C Stringer, M Pachitariu, N Steinmetz, CB Reddy… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION In the absence of sensory inputs, the brain produces structured patterns of
activity, which can be as large as or larger than sensory-driven activity. Ongoing activity …