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

All claims for this connection
Species
Mouse
Result
present
Method
retrograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Evidence
Red RetroBeads injected into either the lateral or the medial shell of the nucleus accumbens retrogradely labelled tyrosine hydroxylase-positive neurons in the ventral tegmental area, which were then recorded in slices.
Source

Distinct Neuromodulatory Effects of Endogenous Orexin and Dynorphin Corelease on Projection-Defined Ventral Tegmental Dopamine Neurons

The Journal of Neuroscience, 2024

DOI 10.1523/jneurosci.0682-24.2024 · PubMed 39187377 · PMC11426376, Figs. 5A,C and 6A,C

Licence: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Named in the paper
“VTA” and “lAcbSh / mAcbSh (lateral and medial shell of the nucleus accumbens)”
Made by
an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-10
Checked by

a second AI model (claude-opus-5) agrees, 2026-10-10

“RetroBead injections in lAcbSh and mAcbSh retrogradely labeled TH+ VTA neurons.”

Status

proposed

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