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VMPO (Ventromedial preoptic nucleus) projects to BST (Bed nuclei of the stria terminalis)

Species: Mouse
Result: present
Method: retrograde tracer
Sign: unknown
Evidence: Rabies retrograde tracing from medial adBNST labelled neurons in the ventromedial preoptic nucleus.
Source: Whole-brain input mapping of the lateral versus medial anterodorsal bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in the mouse
Neurobiology of Stress, 2023
DOI 10.1016/j.ynstr.2023.100527 · PubMed 36861029 · PMC9969273, Fig. 7C–E
Licence: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Named in the paper: “ventromedial preoptic nucleus (VMPO)” and “amBNST”
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
“Fig 7C–E shows VMPO neurons labelled by rabies from amBNST.”
Status: proposed
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