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PVT (Paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus) projects to BST (Bed nuclei of the stria terminalis)
All claims for this connection- Species
- Mouse
- Result
- present
- Method
- anterograde tracer
- Sign
- unknown
- Strength
- strong
- Evidence
- Cre-dependent anterograde tracer in PVT D2R neurons labelled dense fibres in the BNST.
- Source
Dopamine D2 Receptors in the Paraventricular Thalamus Attenuate Cocaine Locomotor Sensitization
eneuro, 2017
DOI 10.1523/eneuro.0227-17.2017 · PubMed 29071300 · PMC5654238, Fig. 3A,E; Table 1Licence: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Named in the paper
- “D2R-expressing PVT neurons (PVT)” and “bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST)”
- 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-5-5) agrees, 2026-10-10
“BNST is reported as a strong target in Fig. 3E.”
- Status
proposed
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