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VAL (Ventral anterior-lateral complex of the thalamus) synapses onto STRd (Striatum dorsal region)

Species: Mouse
Result: present
Method: transsynaptic tracer
Sign: unknown
Evidence: Ventrolateral thalamus contained rabies-labelled inputs to cholinergic interneurons.
Source: Whole-Brain Mapping of Inputs to Projection Neurons and Cholinergic Interneurons in the Dorsal Striatum
PLOS ONE, 2015
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0123381 · PubMed 25830919 · PMC4382118, Fig 3
Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Named in the paper: “ventrolateral thalamic nucleus” and “cholinergic interneurons in the dorsal striatum”
Made by: an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-09
Checked by: a second AI model (claude-opus-5-5) is unsure, 2026-10-09
“VL appears only in the Fig 3 abbreviation list; the text never describes VL labelling for cholinergic starters.”
Status: proposed
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