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VTA (Ventral tegmental area) projects to CEA (Central amygdalar nucleus)

All claims for this connection
Species
Mouse
Result
present
Method
anterograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Evidence
In Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas experiment 160540751, an anterograde tracer injected into VTA of a Slc6a3-Cre mouse, the tracer Cre-dependent (64% of the injection in VTA) labelled axons in CEA (projection density 0.013).
Measurements
  • projection density: 0.013084
Source

A mesoscale connectome of the mouse brain

Nature, 2014

DOI 10.1038/nature13186, Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas, experiment 160540751
Made by
an adapter reading a database (allen-connectivity@1.3.0), 2026-10-08
Status

accepted