Abstract
Areas 24a and 24b of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) play a major role in cognition, emotion and pain. While their connectivity has been studied in primate and in rat, a complete mapping was still missing in the mouse. Here, we analyzed the afferents to the mouse ACC by injecting retrograde tracers in the ventral and dorsal areas of the ACC (areas 24a/b) and of the midcingulate cortex (MCC; areas 24a′/b′). Our results reveal inputs from five principal groups of structures: (1) cortical areas, mainly the orbital, medial prefrontal, retrosplenial, parietal associative, primary and secondary sensory areas and the hippocampus, (2) basal forebrain, mainly the basolateral amygdaloid nucleus, the claustrum and the horizontal limb of the diagonal band of Broca, (3) the thalamus, mainly the anteromedial, lateral mediodorsal, ventromedial, centrolateral, central medial and reuniens/rhomboid nuclei, (4) the hypothalamus, mainly the lateral and retromammillary areas, and (5) the brainstem, mainly the monoaminergic centers. The neurochemical nature of inputs from the diagonal band of Broca and brainstem centers was also investigated by double-labeling, showing that only a part of these afferents were cholinergic or monoaminergic. Comparisons between the areas indicate that areas 24a and 24b receive qualitatively similar inputs, but with different densities. These differences are more pronounced when comparing the inputs to ACC’s areas 24a/24b to the inputs to MCC’s areas 24a′/24b′. These results provide a complete analysis of the afferents to the mouse areas 24a/24b and 24a′/24b′, which shows important similarity with the connectivity of homologous areas in rats, and brings the anatomical basis necessary to address the roles of cingulate areas in mice.
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Abbreviations
- 3n:
-
Oculomotor nerve
- 5-HT:
-
5-Hydroxytryptamine
- ACC:
-
Anterior cingulate cortex
- AD:
-
Anterodorsal thalamic N
- AH:
-
Anterior hypothalamic area
- AI:
-
Agranular insular cortex
- AM:
-
Anteromedial thalamic N
- Au:
-
Primary auditory cortex
- AV:
-
Anteroventral thalamic N
- BDA:
-
Biotinylated dextran amine
- BL:
-
Basolateral amygdaloid N
- BLA:
-
Basolateral amygdaloid N, anterior part
- BLP:
-
Basolateral amygdaloid N, posterior part
- C:
-
Caudal
- CA1:
-
Amon’s horn 1
- CG:
-
Central gray
- Cg1:
-
Anterior cingulate cortex, dorsal
- Cg2:
-
Anterior cingulate cortex, ventral
- ChAT:
-
Choline acetyltransferase
- Cl:
-
Claustrum
- CL:
-
Centrolateral thalamic N
- CM:
-
Central medial thalamic N
- cp:
-
Cerebral peduncle
- CPu:
-
Caudate putamen
- CTb:
-
β Subunit of choleric toxin
- DI:
-
Dysgranular insular cortex
- DR:
-
Dorsal raphe nucleus
- ec:
-
External capsula
- Ect:
-
Ectorhinal cortex
- Ent:
-
Entorhinal cortex
- FG:
-
FluoroGold®
- fmi:
-
Forceps minor of the corpus callosum
- fmj:
-
Forceps major of the corpus callosum
- GI:
-
Granular insular cortex
- GP:
-
Globus pallidus
- HDB:
-
Diagonal band of Broca, horizontal limb
- IAD:
-
Interanterodorsal thalamic N
- IAM:
-
Interanteromedial thalamic N
- ic:
-
Internal capsule
- IG:
-
Infragranular
- La:
-
Lateral amygdaloid N
- LC:
-
Locus coeruleus
- LD:
-
Laterodorsal thalamic N
- LH:
-
Lateral hypothalamic area
- Li:
-
Linear raphe
- LO:
-
Lateral orbital cortex
- LP:
-
Lateral posterior thalamic N
- LPMR:
-
Lateral posterior thalamic N, mediorostral part
- M1:
-
Primary motor cortex
- M2:
-
Secondary motor cortex
- MCC:
-
Midcingulate cortex
- MD:
-
Mediodorsal thalamic N
- me5:
-
Mesencephalic trigeminal tract
- MD:
-
Mediodorsal thalamic N
- MDL:
-
Mediodorsal thalamic N, lateral part
- ml:
-
Medial lemniscus
- MnR:
-
Median raphe N
- MO:
-
Medial orbital cortex
- mPFC:
-
Medial prefrontal cortex
- MS:
-
Medial septal N
- N:
-
Nucleus
- PaF:
-
Parafascicular thalamic N
- PBP:
-
Parabrachial pigmented N of the VTA
- PC:
-
Paracentral thalamic N
- PH:
-
Posterior hypothalamic N
- PLH:
-
Peduncular lateral hypothalamus
- pMnR:
-
Paramedian raphe N
- Po:
-
Posterior thalamic N group
- PRh:
-
Perirhinal cortex
- PT:
-
Paratenial thalamic N
- PtA:
-
Parietal associative cortex
- PV:
-
Paraventricular thalamic N
- R:
-
Rostral
- Re:
-
Reuniens thalamic N
- Rh:
-
Rhomboid thalamic N
- RM:
-
Retromamillary N
- RS:
-
Retrosplenial cortex
- S1:
-
Primary somatosensory cortex
- S2:
-
Secondary somatosensory cortex
- SG:
-
Supragranular
- sm:
-
Stria medullaris
- SNc:
-
Substantia nigra, pars compacta
- SNr:
-
Substantia nigra, pars reticulata
- TeA:
-
Temporal association cortex
- TH:
-
Tyrosine hydroxylase
- V1:
-
Primary visual cortex
- V2L:
-
Secondary visual cortex, lateral area
- V2M:
-
Secondary visual cortex, medial area
- VA:
-
Ventral anterior thalamic N
- VDB:
-
Diagonal band of Broca, vertical limb
- VM:
-
Ventromedial thalamic N
- VO:
-
Ventral orbital cortex
- VP:
-
Ventral pallidum
- VTA:
-
Ventral tegmental area
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This work was supported by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (contract UPR3212), the University of Strasbourg, and by a NARSAD Young Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. The authors thank Dr. R. A. Ceredig for reading the paper.
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Fillinger, C., Yalcin, I., Barrot, M. et al. Afferents to anterior cingulate areas 24a and 24b and midcingulate areas 24a′ and 24b′ in the mouse. Brain Struct Funct 222, 1509–1532 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-016-1290-1
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