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VTA (Ventral tegmental area) projects to ACB (Nucleus accumbens)

Species: Rat
Result: present
Method: retrograde tracer
Sign: unknown
Evidence: Retrograde Cholera Toxin B placed in the nucleus accumbens labelled neurons in the ventral tegmental area; a larger share of these NAc-projecting VTA cells were cFos positive after 10-Hz phasic than after 25-Hz tonic locus coeruleus stimulation.
Source: Locus Coeruleus Activation Patterns Differentially Modulate Odor Discrimination Learning and Odor Valence in Rats
Cerebral Cortex Communications, 2021
DOI 10.1093/texcom/tgab026 · PubMed 34296171 · PMC8152946, Supplementary Fig. S6 (described in Results, last paragraph)
Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Named in the paper: “VTA” and “NAc”
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) agrees, 2026-10-09
“Results text for Supplementary Fig. S6 reports NAc-projecting (CTB-labeled) VTA neurons engaged more by phasic than 25-Hz tonic light.”
Status: proposed
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