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ACB (Nucleus accumbens) projects to VTA (Ventral tegmental area)
All claims for this connection- Species
- Mouse
- Result
- present
- Method
- retrograde tracer
- Sign
- unknown
- Strength
- strong
- Evidence
- After Fluoro-Gold injection into the VTA of NtsCre;GFP mice, many GFP-labelled Nts neurons in the accumbens shell were double-labelled, forming a continuous band across its rostrocaudal extent. The abstract describes this as dense input.
- Source
Determination of neurotensin projections to the ventral tegmental area in mice
Neuropeptides, 2018
DOI 10.1016/j.npep.2018.02.003 · PubMed 29478718 · PMC5906039, Results 3.3; Fig. 5B; Fig. 4; Table 2Licence: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
- Named in the paper
- “NA shell (NAsh) Nts neurons” and “VTA”
- 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
“Many NAsh Nts/FG+ neurons formed a continuous band, and the abstract calls this input dense.”
- Status
proposed
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