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VTA (Ventral tegmental area) projects to ACB (Nucleus accumbens)
All claims for this connection- Species
- Mouse
- Result
- present
- Method
- anterograde tracer
- Sign
- unknown
- Evidence
- After Cre-dependent GCaMP6s expression in VTA of DAT-IRES-Cre mice, histology showed labelled dopaminergic axon fields in NAc as well as BA, beneath the implanted photometry fibers.
- Source
State-specific gating of salient cues by midbrain dopaminergic input to basal amygdala
Nature Neuroscience, 2019
DOI 10.1038/s41593-019-0506-0 · PubMed 31611706 · PMC6858554, Fig. 4aLicence: http://www.springer.com/tdm
- Named in the paper
- “VTA dopamine neurons” and “nucleus accumbens (NAc) medial shell”
- 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) agrees, 2026-10-09
“Fig. 4a histology shows Cre-dependent VTA labeling with axon fields under the NAc medial shell fiber.”
- Status
proposed
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