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MT (Medial terminal nucleus of the accessory optic tract) projects to PILN (posterior group of intralaminar nuclei)

All claims for this connection
Species
Rat
Result
present
Method
retrograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Evidence
Medial terminal nucleus neurons were retrogradely labelled from the PIL.
Source

Comparison of the connectivity of the posterior intralaminar thalamic nucleus and peripeduncular nucleus in rats and mice

Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2024

DOI 10.3389/fncir.2024.1384621 · PubMed 38736977 · PMC11082296, Fig. 9J

Licence: CC-BY-4.0

Named in the paper
“medial terminal nucleus (MT)” and “PIL”
Made by
an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-10
Checked by

a second AI model (claude-opus-5-5) agrees, 2026-10-10

“The MT is listed among the FG-labeled regions after PIL injection, shown in Fig. 9J.”

Status

proposed

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