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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 171021829, an anterograde tracer injected into VTA of a Cck-IRES-Cre mouse, the tracer Cre-dependent (34% of the injection in VTA) labelled axons in CEA (projection density 0.029).
- Measurements
- projection density: 0.029402
- Source
A mesoscale connectome of the mouse brain
Nature, 2014
DOI 10.1038/nature13186, Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas, experiment 171021829- 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.