The nervous system uses various coding strategies to process sensory inputs. For example, the olfactory system uses large receptor repertoires and is wired to recognize diverse odours, whereas the visual system provides high acuity of object position, form and movement1–5. Compared to external sensory systems, principles that underlie sensory processing by the interoceptive nervous system remain poorly defined. Here we developed a two-photon calcium imaging preparation to understand internal organ representations in the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS), a sensory gateway in the brainstem that receives vagal and other inputs from the body. Focusing on gut and upper airway stimuli, we observed that individual NTS neurons are tuned to detect signals from particular organs and are topographically organized on the basis of body position. Moreover, some mechanosensory and chemosensory inputs from the same organ converge centrally. Sensory inputs engage specific NTS domains with defined locations, each containing heterogeneous cell types. Spatial representations of different organs are further sharpened in the NTS beyond what is achieved by vagal axon sorting alone, as blockade of brainstem inhibition broadens neural tuning and disorganizes visceral representations. These findings reveal basic organizational features used by the brain to process interoceptive inputs.
Two electrons in two orbitals give rise to four states. When the orbitals are weakly coupled as in the case for the d xy orbitals of quadruple bond species, two of the states are diradical in character with electrons residing in separate orbitals and two of the states are zwitterionic with electrons paired in one orbital or the other. By measuring one-and two-photon spectra, the one-electron (ΔW) and two-electron (K) energies may be calculated, which are the determinants of the state energies of the four-state model for the two-electron bond. The K energy is thus especially sensitive to the size of the orbital as K is dependent on the distance between electrons. To this end, one-and two-photon spectra of Mo 2 X 4 (PMe 3 ) 4 are sensitive to secondary bonding interactions of the δ-orbital manifold with the halide orbitals, as reflected in decreasing K energies along the series Cl > Br > I. Additionally, the calculated one-electron energies have been verified with the spectroelectrochemical preparation of the Mo 2 X 4 (PMe 3 ) 4 + complexes, where the δ bond is a one-electron bond, and K is thus absent. The δ → δ* transition shifts over 10,000 cm −1 upon oxidation of Mo 2 X 4 (PMe 3 ) 4 to Mo 2 X 4 (PMe 3 ) 4 + , establishing that transitions within the two-electron δ bond are heavily governed by the twoelectron exchange energy.
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