(A) Schematic of experimental approach. AAV-DIO-mCherry was unilaterally injected into the CeA of PKCδ-cre mice. A representative coronal brain slice of an injected mouse is shown on the right …
(A) Schematic of experimental approach. AAV-FLEX-ChrimsonR-tdTomato or AAV-DIO-mCherry was unilaterally injected into the CeA of PKCδ-cre mice. A representative coronal brain slice of mouse injected …
Source data for quantification of CeA neurons transduced with ChrimsonR-tdTomato or mCherry.
(A) Schematic of experimental approach. AAV-FLEX-ChrimsonR-tdTomato or AAV--DIO-mCherry was unilaterally injected into the CeA of PKCδ-cre mice. Terminal densities and distributions were evaluated …
Source data for quantification of CeA-PKCδ axonal terminal density within the ZI.
Fluorescently tagged cholera toxin B (CTB-647) was injected into the ZI of a PKCδ-cre::Ai9 mouse brain. A representative coronal brain slice depicting the focal injection of CTB-647 (cyan) into the …
Source data for anatomical and electrophysiological validation of CeA-PKCd to ZI pathway.
(A) Representative images of coronal brain slices at different rostral-caudal levels containing the CeA of PKCδ-cre:Ai9 mice injected with the fluorescently tagged retrograde tracer cholera toxin B …
Source data for quantification of CTB-647 and PKCδ-tdTomato positive neurons in the CeA.
(A) Schematic of the experimental approach. VGAT-cre mice were stereotaxically injected with hM4Di into the ZI. Current-clamp recordings were obtained from hM4Di-positive cells in acute ZI slices 2 …
Source data for chemogenetic inhibition of ZI-GABAergic neurons.
(A) Rostral-caudal distribution of hM4Di injection sites in mice used for behavioral experiments. Drawings of injection sites throughout the VGAT-cre mice brains injected with hM4Di into the ZI. …
Source data for thermal responses to chemogenetic inhibition of ZI-GABAergic neurons.
(A) VGAT-cre mice were injected with hM3Dq or mCherry into the ZI. Low-magnification representative image of a coronal brain slice shows the site of virus injection in red. The area delineated by …
Source data for chemogenetic activation of ZI-GABAergic neurons.
Drawings of injection sites throughout the VGAT-cre mice brains injected with hM3Dq into the ZI. Individual mice are represented in different color.
(A) Rostral-caudal distribution of mCherry injection sites in mice used for behavioral experiments. Drawings of injection sites throughout the VGAT-cre mice brains injected with mCherry into the ZI. …
Source data for thermal responses to chemogenetic activation of ZI-GABAergic neurons in cuff implanted mice.
(A) Schematic of experimental approach. PKCδ-cre mice were stereotaxically injected with NpHR-mCherry or control-mCherry virus into the CeA and simultaneously implanted with an optic fiber above the …
Source data for optogenetic inhibition of CeA-PKCδ terminals in ZI.
Drawings of injection sites injected into CeA with (A) control-mCherry (B) NpHR-mCherry and (C) ChR2-mCherry. Individual mice are represented in different color.
(A) Experimental timeline of viral infection in CeA, optic probe implantation in ZI, cuff implantation in sciatic nerve and battery of nociceptive behavior tests. (B–D) Different modalities of pain …
Source data for behavioral responses to tactile, cold and heat stimulation after optogenetic inhibition of CeA-PKCδ terminals in ZI.
(A) Schematic of experimental approach. PKCδ-cre mice were stereotaxically injected with ChR2-mCherry or control-mCherry virus into the CeA and simultaneously implanted with an optic fiber above the …
Source data for optogenetic activation of CeA-PKCδ terminals in ZI.
(A) Experimental timeline of viral infection in CeA, optic probe implantation in ZI, cuff implantation in sciatic nerve and battery of nociceptive behavior tests. (B–D) Different modalities of pain …
Source data for behavioral responses to tactile, cold and heat stimulation after optogenetic inhibition of CeA-PKCδ terminals in ZI.
Semi-quantitative analysis of the density of axonal terminals in brain regions from 5 PKCδ-Cre mice stereotaxically injected with an adeno-associated virus expressing the cre-dependent gene …
Area | Abbreviations | ET832 mCherry | ET835 mCherry | ET 987 ChrimsonR | ET 903 ChrimsonR | Allen Brain Atlas EGFP |
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Striatum and Basal Forebrain | ||||||
Bed nucleus of stria terminalis | BNST | +++ | +++ | +++ | +++ | +++ |
Globus pallidus | GP | ++ | + | + | + | + |
Extended amygdala | EA | +++ | +/++ | +++ | +++ | +++ |
Central amygdala | CeA | ++ | +/++ | +++ | +++ | ++ |
Substantia innominata | SI | ++ | +/++ | ++ | ++ | ++ |
Thalamus | ||||||
Subthalamic nucleus | STh | + | - | ++ | + | - |
Zona Incerta | ZI | ++ | - | ++ | + | + |
Para subthalamic nucleus | PSTh | +/++ | + | ++ | ++ | - |
Hypothalamus | ||||||
lateral preoptic area | LPO | +/++ | + | + | + | + |
Lateral hypothalamus | LH | +/++ | + | + | + | + |
Midbrain | ||||||
Ventral tegmental area | VTA | +/++ | - | +/++ | + | - |
Substantia nigra | SN | ++ | + | ++ | +/++ | - |
Pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus | PTg | ++ | - | + | + | - |
Laterodorsal tegmental nucleus | LDTg | - | + | + | + | - |
Periaqueductal grey | PAG | - | + | +/++ | + | - |
Reticular formation | mRT | +/++ | +/++ | +/++ | + | - |
Pons | ||||||
Lateral parabrachial | LPB | ++/+++ | + | +++ | +++ | - |
Locus coeruleus | LC | ++ | + | + | + | - |
Reagent type (species) or resource | Designation | Source or reference | Identifiers | Additional information |
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Genetic reagent (M. musculus) | PKCδ-cre mice | GENSAT | founder line 011559-UCD | |
Genetic reagent (M. musculus) | Ai9 mice | Jackson Laboratories | Stock number 007909 | |
Genetic reagent (M. musculus) | Vesicular GABA transporter Cre mice | Jackson Laboratories | Stock number 016962 | |
Genetic reagent (M. musculus) | C57BL/6NJ mice | Jackson Laboratories | Stock number 005304 | |
Transfected construct (M. musculus) | pAAV8-hSyn-DIO-hM4D(Gi)-mCherry | Addgene; donated by Bryan Roth Krashes et al., 2011 | Addgene:#44362-AAV8 | |
Transfected construct (M. musculus) | pAAV8-hSyn-DIO-mCherry | Addgene; donated by Bryan Roth | Addgene:#50459-AAV8 | |
Transfected construct (M. musculus) | pAAV8-hSyn-DIO-hM3D(Gq)-mCherry | Addgene; donated by Bryan Roth Krashes et al., 2011 | Addgene:#44361-AAV8 | |
Transfected construct (M. musculus) | AAV9-Syn-Flex-ChrimsonR-tdTomato | UNC; donated by Edward Boyden | Lot Number AV4384G | |
Transfected construct (M. musculus) | rAAV2-hSyn-hChR2(H134R)-EYFP-WPRE-PA | UNC; donated by Karl Deisseroth | Lot Number AV6556C | |
Transfected construct (M. musculus) | pAAV8-EF1a-double floxed-hChR2 (H134R)-mCherry-WPRE-HGHpA | Addgene; donated by Karl Deisseroth | Addgene:#20297-AAV8 | |
Transfected construct (M. musculus) | AAV2-EF1a-DIO-eNpHR3.0-mCherry | UNC; donated by Karl Deisseroth | Lot Number AV4872B | |
Transfected construct (M. musculus) | AAV2-EF1a-DIO mCherry | UNC; donated by Bryan Roth | Lot Number AV4735E | |
Antibody (rat monoclonal) | rat anti-mCherr | Invitrogen | M11217 | 1:500 |
Antibody (rabbit monoclonal) | rabbit anti-Phospho-c-Fos (Ser32) | Cell Signaling Technology | 5348 | 1:2000 |
Antibody (mouse monoclonal) | mouse anti-PKCδ | BD Biosciences | 610397 | 1:1000 |
Antibody (goat polyclonal) | goat anti-rat Cy3 | Invitrogen | A10522 | 1:250 |
Antibody (goat polyclonal) | Alexa Fluor 647-conjugated goat anti-rabbit | Invitrogen | A21244 | 1:250 |
Antibody (goat polyclonal) | Alexa Fluor 647-conjugated goat anti-mouse | Invitrogen | A21235 | 1:100 |
Sequence-based reagent | Forward primer to genotype for the presence of cre-recombinase: TTAATCCATATTGGCAGAACGAAAACG | Transnetyx | Transnetyx.com | |
Sequence-based reagent | Reverse primer to genotype for the presence of cre-recombinase: AGGCTAAGTGCCTTCTCTACA | Transnetyx | Transnetyx.com | |
Peptide, recombinant protein | Alexa Fluor 647-conjugated cholera toxin subunit B | Invitrogen | C34778 |