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VTA (Ventral tegmental area) projects to Isocortex
All claims for this connection- Species
- Mouse
- Result
- present
- Method
- anterograde tracer
- Sign
- unknown
- Strength
- weak
- Evidence
- VTA dopaminergic tdTomato-labelled axons were present in the prefrontal cortex and co-labelled with TH immunostaining. Labelling there was sparse and significantly lower than in BLA.
- Source
A sex difference in mouse dopaminergic projections from the midbrain to basolateral amygdala
Biology of Sex Differences, 2022
DOI 10.1186/s13293-022-00486-4 · PubMed 36585727 · PMC9801632, Fig. 1A, Fig. 2A, DLicence: CC-BY-4.0
- Named in the paper
- “VTA (dopaminergic neurons, TH-Cre)” and “prefrontal cortex (PFC)”
- 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) disagrees, 2026-10-09
“The paper measured prefrontal cortex specifically, so mapping the target to the whole Isocortex names a broader region than the paper means.”
- Status
proposed
Drafted and checked by AI models; it stays proposed until people have audited a sample of such claims.