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LPO (Lateral preoptic area) projects to BS (Brain stem)

Species: Rat
Result: present
Method: retrograde tracer
Sign: unknown
Strength: strong
Evidence: Lateral preoptic area neurons were retrogradely labelled from the CSF-contacting nucleus, a projection graded strong (about 11.2 cells per 0.2 mm2).
Source: Novel Projections to the Cerebrospinal Fluid-Contacting Nucleus From the Subcortex and Limbic System in Rat
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2020
DOI 10.3389/fnana.2020.00057 · PubMed 32973466 · PMC7468392, Fig. 6, Fig. 7D; Results, preoptic area
Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Named in the paper: “lateral preoptic area (LPO)” and “CSF-contacting nucleus”
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
“LPO is strong at 11.17 and is shown in Fig. 6.”
Status: proposed
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