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VTA (Ventral tegmental area) projects to CEA (Central amygdalar nucleus)

All claims for this connection
Species
Mouse
Result
present
Method
anterograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Evidence
In Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas experiment 127651139, an anterograde tracer injected into VTA of a Syt17-Cre_NO14 mouse, the tracer Cre-dependent (27% of the injection in VTA) labelled axons in CEA (projection density 0.051).
Measurements
  • projection density: 0.050778
Source

A mesoscale connectome of the mouse brain

Nature, 2014

DOI 10.1038/nature13186, Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas, experiment 127651139
Made by
an adapter reading a database (allen-connectivity@1.3.0), 2026-10-08
Status

proposed

Most of the injected tracer landed outside the region it names.