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PIL (Posterior intralaminar thalamic nucleus) projects to ECT (Ectorhinal area)

All claims for this connection
Species
Mouse
Result
present
Method
anterograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Evidence
Cre-dependent viral tracing from the PIL in Calb2-Cre mice labelled terminals mainly in layers 1 and 5 of ectorhinal cortex.
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. 11A-D

Licence: CC-BY-4.0

Named in the paper
“PIL” and “ECT”
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

“The ECT, in layers 1 and 5, is a main target in the mouse PIL cases.”

Status

proposed

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