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A whole-brain male mouse atlas of long-range inputs to histaminergic neurons.

2025-08-29, Nature Communications (10.1038/s41467-025-63394-2) (online)
Qingming Luo, Zhong Chen, Yi Wang, Wenkai Lin, Anan Li, Xinyan Zhu, Xuemin Yu, Zhuowen Fang, Qinyan Xia, Li Cheng, Menghan Li, Xiaoyun Qiu, Lingyu Xu, Sile An, Chuhao Dou, Yanrong Zheng, Weiwei Hu, and Pertti Panula (?)
The precise structural and functional characteristics of input circuits targeting histaminergic neurons remain poorly understood. Here, using a rabies virus retrograde tracing system combined with fluorescence micro-optical sectioning tomography, we construct a 3D monosynaptic long-range input atlas of male mouse histaminergic neurons. We identify that the hypothalamus, thalamus, pallidum, and hippocampus constitute major input sources, exhibiting diverse spatial distribution patterns and neuronal type ratios. Notably, a specific layer distribution pattern and co-projection structures of upstream cortical neurons are well reconstructed at single-cell resolution. As histaminergic system is classically involved in sleep-wake regulation, we demonstrate that the lateral septum (predominantly supplying inhibitory inputs) and the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (predominantly supplying excitatory inputs) establish monosynaptic connections, exhibiting distinct functional dynamics and regulatory roles in rapid-eye-movement sleep. Collectively, our study provides a precise long-range input map of mouse histaminergic neurons at mesoscopic scale, laying a solid foundation for future systematic study of histaminergic neural circuits.
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