The posteroventral part of the medial amygdala nucleus glutamatergic neurons encodes conspecifics’ individual identity in rodents
Lu Zheng, Libiao Pan, Xiaoyu Fu, Siyu Wang (王思羽), Yue Wu, Hanyang Xiao, Jiachao Yang, Siyu Wang (王思雨), Li Yang, Xiaotong Wu, Fada Pan, Hongbin Yang, Gao Chen, Hao Wang · 2026
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Lu Zheng and colleagues report a 2026 brain study in mice on how animals know each other by smell. They focused on a small area deep in the brain that handles social scent signals. The question was which cells there store the identity of each fellow animal.
Scent contact raised activity in one group of nerve cells in that area. Silencing those cells broke the mice's skill at telling animals apart, by scent, sex, or identity. Signals reach the area straight from a scent relay in the nose. Fine imaging showed a distinct cell group that codes each animal's own scent cues. Blocking only that group harmed social contact with kin.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lu Zheng, Libiao Pan, Xiaoyu Fu, Siyu Wang (王思羽), Yue Wu, Hanyang Xiao, Jiachao Yang, Siyu Wang (王思雨), Li Yang, Xiaotong Wu, Fada Pan, Hongbin Yang, Gao Chen, Hao Wang |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 65 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |