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PPN (Pedunculopontine nucleus) synapses onto ACB (Nucleus accumbens)

Species: Rat
Result: present
Method: transsynaptic tracer
Sign: unknown
Evidence: The pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus was a quantified source of rabies input cells.
Source: Sources of Synaptic Input to Neurons in the Nucleus Accumbens Shell That Project to the Ventral Pallidum
Journal of Comparative Neurology, 2025
DOI 10.1002/cne.70081 · PubMed 40838534 · PMC12368940, Fig. 3a,b
Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Named in the paper: “pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (PPTg)” and “NAcSh-VP projection neurons”
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) agrees, 2026-10-09
“PPTg is one of the quantified input regions in Fig. 3.”
Status: proposed
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