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CEA (central amygdaloid nucleus) projects to VTA (Ventral tegmental area)
All claims for this connection- Species
- Rat
- Result
- present
- Method
- anterograde tracer
- Sign
- unknown
- Evidence
- mCherry-labelled terminals from CeA PKCδ+ neurons were present in the ventral tegmental area.
- Source
Generation and Characterization of a NovelPrkcd-Cre Rat Model
The Journal of Neuroscience, 2024
DOI 10.1523/jneurosci.0528-24.2024 · PubMed 38977300 · PMC11308323, Fig. 4E; Results, Anterograde tracing of CeA PKCδ+ neuronsLicence: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Named in the paper
- “CeA PKCδ+ neurons” and “ventral tegmental area (VTA)”
- Made by
- an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-10
- Checked by
a second AI model (claude-opus-5) agrees, 2026-10-10
“VTA explicitly named as a target in Fig. 4E.”
- Status
proposed
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