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MPO (Medial preoptic area) synapses onto PVH (Paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus)

Species: Mouse
Result: present
Method: transsynaptic tracer
Sign: unknown
Strength: strong
Evidence: Rabies-labelled presynaptic cells were plentiful in the medial preoptic nucleus for both NAc- and CeA-projecting PVN oxytocin neurons, with similar amounts for the two populations.
Source: Distinct projections of PVN oxytocin neurons regulate the divergent defensive behaviors in response to social threat
Science Advances, 2026
DOI 10.1126/sciadv.aeb0400 · PubMed 42341137 · PMC13292991, Fig. 5G
Named in the paper: “MPO” and “PVN”
Made by: an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-09
Checked by: a second AI model (claude-opus-5) agrees, 2026-10-09
“Rabies tracing showed abundant, comparable MPO input to both PVN OXT projection populations.”
Status: proposed
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