Rajeevkumar Raveendran Nair

The paper develops a direction-selective anterograde transsynaptic transduction method to map hippocampal output circuits in mice, focusing on projection targets like the amygdala.

The paper finds that association cortical areas in mice have a comparable GABAergic population to primary sensory areas, including fast-spiking neurons that do not express parvalbumin.

This paper delineates four subregions within the mouse claustrum complex using fiber-architecture, genetic markers, and connectivity data, providing a reference framework for future studies.

The paper introduces a method to trace monosynaptic inputs to single neurons in the hippocampus of wildtype mice without electroporation or tissue removal, achieving 48% success for up to 4 cells and 16% for a single cell.

The paper investigates GABAergic neuron diversity in the mouse perirhinal cortex and finds it is enriched in 5HT3aR-expressing neurons despite lower parvalbumin-expressing neuron density.

The paper shows that the PV-IRES-Cre mouse line labels only a fraction of parvalbumin interneurons in the perirhinal cortex, highlighting uncharacterized diversity within PV-INs.

The paper shows that layer Vb-to-Va connections are more effective in lateral entorhinal cortex than in medial entorhinal cortex, suggesting LEC plays a greater role in episodic memory consolidation.

The paper presents a microfluidic platform for creating functional neuromuscular junctions using human motor neurons and myotubes, validated by rabies virus tracing.

The paper develops viral vectors with brain region-specific gene expression using enhancer-driven gene expression (EDGE) to enable circuit-specific manipulations in any species.