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SUBMITTER: Hu R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5056182 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hu Rongfeng R Jin Sen S He Xiaobin X Xu Fuqiang F Hu Ji J
Frontiers in neuroanatomy 20161010
The basal forebrain cholinergic system (BFCS) robustly modulates many important behaviors, such as arousal, attention, learning and memory, through heavy projections to cortex and hippocampus. However, the presynaptic partners governing BFCS activity still remain poorly understood. Here, we utilized a recently developed rabies virus-based cell-type-specific retrograde tracing system to map the whole-brain afferent inputs of the BFCS. We found that the BFCS receives inputs from multiple cortical ...[more]