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A thalamo-preoptic pathway promoting social touch

A thalamo-preoptic pathway promoting social touch

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A thalamo-preoptic pathway promoting social touch

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Full title

A thalamo-preoptic pathway promoting social touch

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

Journal title

bioRxiv, 2022-01

Language

English

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Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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Contents

Social touch is an important form of communication, it is still unknown how it is processed. Here, we discovered a functional role for a neuronal pathway projecting from the posterior intralaminar thalamic nucleus (PIL) to the medial preoptic area (MPOA) in controlling social contact. Neurons in the PIL and the MPOA were activated by physical conta...

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A thalamo-preoptic pathway promoting social touch

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2619062034

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2619062034

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E-ISSN

2692-8205

DOI

10.1101/2022.01.11.475648