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PILN (posterior group of intralaminar nuclei) projects to VMH (Ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus)

Species: Rat
Result: present
Method: retrograde tracer
Sign: unknown
Strength: weak
Evidence: After FG injections into the VMH only a few labelled cells lay in 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. 7B-F; Fig. 8A-D
Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Named in the paper: “PIL” and “VMH”
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
“VMH FG injections labeled few PIL cells.”
Status: proposed
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