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Exploitation of puddles for breakthroughs in claustrum research

Since its first identification as a thin strip of gray matter enclosed between stretches of neighboring fiber bundles, the claustrum has been considered impossible to study by many modern techniques that need a certain roominess of tissue for their application. Known as the front wall, vormauren in...

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Autores principales: Johnson, John-Irwin, Fenske, Brian A., Jaswa, Amar S., Morris, John A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4030192/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24860441
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2014.00078
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description Since its first identification as a thin strip of gray matter enclosed between stretches of neighboring fiber bundles, the claustrum has been considered impossible to study by many modern techniques that need a certain roominess of tissue for their application. Known as the front wall, vormauren in German from 1822, and still called avant-mur in French, we here propose a means for breaking into and through this wall, by utilizing the instances where the claustral tissue itself has broken free into more spacious dimensions. This has occurred several times in the evolution of modern mammals, and all that needs be done is to exploit these natural expansions in order to take advantage of a great panoply of technological advances now at our disposal. So here we review the kinds of breakout “puddles” that await productive exploitation, to bring our knowledge of structure and function up to the level enjoyed for other more accessible regions of the brain.
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spelling pubmed-40301922014-05-23 Exploitation of puddles for breakthroughs in claustrum research Johnson, John-Irwin Fenske, Brian A. Jaswa, Amar S. Morris, John A. Front Syst Neurosci Neuroscience Since its first identification as a thin strip of gray matter enclosed between stretches of neighboring fiber bundles, the claustrum has been considered impossible to study by many modern techniques that need a certain roominess of tissue for their application. Known as the front wall, vormauren in German from 1822, and still called avant-mur in French, we here propose a means for breaking into and through this wall, by utilizing the instances where the claustral tissue itself has broken free into more spacious dimensions. This has occurred several times in the evolution of modern mammals, and all that needs be done is to exploit these natural expansions in order to take advantage of a great panoply of technological advances now at our disposal. So here we review the kinds of breakout “puddles” that await productive exploitation, to bring our knowledge of structure and function up to the level enjoyed for other more accessible regions of the brain. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4030192/ /pubmed/24860441 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2014.00078 Text en Copyright © 2014 Johnson, Fenske, Jaswa and Morris. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_short Exploitation of puddles for breakthroughs in claustrum research
title_sort exploitation of puddles for breakthroughs in claustrum research
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4030192/
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