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FN (Fastigial nucleus) projects to VTA (Ventral tegmental area)
All claims for this connection- Species
- Mouse
- Result
- ambiguous
- Method
- anterograde tracer
- Sign
- unknown
- Evidence
- In the VTA only labelled axons and no transduced cell bodies were observed after fastigial injection of the anterograde transsynaptic virus; the authors read this as the absence of a monosynaptic fastigial-VTA connection.
- Source
Social memory deficit caused by dysregulation of the cerebellar vermis
Nature Communications, 2023
DOI 10.1038/s41467-023-41744-2 · PubMed 37752149 · PMC10522595, Fig. 6cLicence: CC-BY-4.0
- Named in the paper
- “fastigial nucleus (FN)” and “ventral tegmental area (VTA)”
- Made by
- an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-09
- Checked by
a second AI model (claude-opus-5-5) agrees, 2026-10-09
“Only axons, with no or few somas, appeared in the VTA, and the authors read this as no monosynaptic link, so ambiguous fits.”
- Status
proposed
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