Enduring reduction of resting state functional connectivity (FC) of parvalbumin-positive interneurons (PV-INs) after stroke. Top left: Experimental timeline, with the cranial optical window implanted one week before the first imaging session. Imaging time point at −1 (PRE), 2, 5, 8, 14, 21, and 28 days after stroke. Top right: Left, representative image sequence of cortical PV-IN activity before stroke. The black dot indicates bregma. L: lateral; M: medial; R: rostral; C: caudal (Scale bar, 1 mm). Right, wide-field calcium imaging field-of-view aligned with the surface of the Allen Institute Mouse Brain atlas. The green area on the left hemisphere locates the damaged region. Yellow squares represent cortical areas defined in both left (L, contralesional) and right (R, ipsilesional) hemispheres. Red dot indicates bregma (Scale bar, 1 mm). Middle row: Pairwise Pearson’s correlation coefficients of cortical activity were visualized as averaged correlation matrices for each imaging time point after hemodynamic correction. Bottom row: Network diagrams of statistically significant FC alterations after 2, 5, 8, 14, 21, or 28 days from injury. Blue and red lines denote significant hyper-correlation and hypo-correlation compared to prestroke values, respectively.
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