Stefano Nardone, Roberto De Luca, Antonino Zito, Nataliya Klymko, Dimitris Nicoloutsopoulos, Oren Amsalem, Cory Brannigan, Jon M Resch, Christopher L Jacobs, Deepti Pant, Molly Veregge, Harini Srinivasan, Ryan M Grippo, Zongfang Yang, Mark L Zeidel, Mark L Andermann, Kenneth D Harris, Linus T Tsai, Elda Arrigoni, Anne M J Verstegen, Clifford B Saper, Bradford B Lowell
The "dorsal pons", or "dorsal pontine tegmentum" (dPnTg), is part of the brainstem. It is a complex, densely packed region whose nuclei are involved in regulating many vital functions. Notable among them are the parabrachial nucleus, the Kölliker Fuse, the Barrington nucleus, the locus coeruleus, and the dorsal, laterodorsal, and ventral tegmental nuclei. In this study, we applied single-nucleus RNA-seq (snRNA-seq) to resolve neuronal subtypes based on their unique transcriptional profiles and then used multiplexed error robust fluorescence in situ hybridization (MERFISH) to map them spatially...
March 4, 2024: Nature Communications