clm-15mayz6zhh

LH (Lateral habenula) synapses onto VTA (Ventral tegmental area)

Species: Mouse
Result: present
Method: transsynaptic tracer
Sign: unknown
Evidence: Lateral habenula neurons were rabies-labelled from vGluT2-Cre-defined glutamatergic VTA neurons and contributed strongly to the component on which glutamatergic brains were enriched.
Source: Drug-induced changes in connectivity to midbrain dopamine cells revealed by rabies monosynaptic tracing
eLife, 2026
DOI 10.7554/elife.93664 · PubMed 42138352 · PMC13179063, Fig. 1C, Fig. 1G
Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Named in the paper: “LHb” and “VTA glutamatergic cells (vGluT2-Cre)”
Made by: an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-10
Checked by: a second AI model (claude-opus-5) agrees, 2026-10-10
“LHb is a quantified input region in vGluT2-Cre brains and loads positively on PC2, where vGluT2 brains score highest.”
Status: proposed
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