Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Cholinergic deficits selectively boost cortical intratelencephalic control of striatum in male Huntington’s disease model mice

  • Tristano Pancani,
  • Michelle Day,
  • Tatiana Tkatch,
  • David L. Wokosin,
  • Patricia González-Rodríguez,
  • Jyothisri Kondapalli,
  • Zhong Xie,
  • Yu Chen,
  • Vahri Beaumont,
  • D. James Surmeier

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36556-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The corticostriatal dysfunction underlying Huntington’s disease remains incompletely understood. Here, the authors find increased intratelencephalic connectivity resulting from deficient cholinergic transmission in a mouse model of Huntington’s disease.