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Luca Pancotti

Université LavalORCID 0000-0002-1109-6867Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:mouse· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Recurrent neuronal loops between medial prefrontal cortex and ventral tegmental area display sex-specific spatial reorganization in response to stress

Luca Pancotti, Eloise Dumas, Arturo Marroquin Rivera, Christophe D. Proulx, Benoît Labonté

The paper identifies sex-specific spatial reorganization of mPFC-VTA neuronal loops under stress using viral tracing and spatial clustering.

bioRxiv · Mar 25, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience

Transcriptional profiling of the cortico-accumbal pathway reveals sex-specific alterations underlying stress susceptibility

André Moreira Pessoni, Laila Blanc Arabe, Luca Pancotti, Samaneh Mansouri, Marco D’Angelo, Karine Huot, Arturo Marroquín-Rivera, Modesto R. Peralta, Chenqi Zhao, Quentin Leboulleux, Martin Lévesque, Christophe D. Proulx, Benoît Labonté

This study identifies sex-specific transcriptional changes in mPFC-NAc pathway neurons under chronic stress, revealing Xlr4b as a stress susceptibility driver in males.

Biological Psychiatry · Oct 9, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience