Quantitative Fluorescence Analysis Reveals Dendrite-Specific Thalamocortical Plasticity in L5 Pyramidal Neurons during Learning

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¹Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15213
²Optical Nanoscopy in Neuroscience, Center for Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain, University Medical Center Göttingen, 37099 Göttingen, Germany
³Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, 37077 Göttingen, Germany

Author contributions: A.R. and A.L.B. designed research; A.R., J.A.C., and E.P. performed research; W.W. and K.I.W. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; A.R., J.A.C., and M.B.M. analyzed data; A.R. and A.L.B. wrote the paper.

This work was supported by the Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute–Indian Institute of Science Fellowship Program (A.R.), National Institutes of Health Grants R21 MH123906 and RF1 MH114103 (A.L.B.), and the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences (K.I.W.). We thank Joanne Steinmiller for animal care and Rachel Swindell for technical assistance.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
Correspondence should be addressed to Alison L. Barth at albarth{at}andrew.cmu.edu

HHS | National Institutes of Health (NIH)
R21 MH123906; RF1 MH114103
Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute/Indian Institute of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship