Nature Communications (May 2022)

Selective plasticity of callosal neurons in the adult contralesional cortex following murine traumatic brain injury

  • Laura Empl,
  • Alexandra Chovsepian,
  • Maryam Chahin,
  • Wing Yin Vanessa Kan,
  • Julie Fourneau,
  • Valérie Van Steenbergen,
  • Sanofer Weidinger,
  • Maite Marcantoni,
  • Alexander Ghanem,
  • Peter Bradley,
  • Karl Klaus Conzelmann,
  • Ruiyao Cai,
  • Alireza Ghasemigharagoz,
  • Ali Ertürk,
  • Ingrid Wagner,
  • Mario Kreutzfeldt,
  • Doron Merkler,
  • Sabine Liebscher,
  • Florence M. Bareyre

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29992-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Which contralesional circuits adapt after traumatic brain injury (TBI) is unclear. Here the authors used in vivo imaging, retrograde labeling, rabies tracing, clearing and functional imaging to demonstrate that callosal neurons selectively adapt after TBI in mice.