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BST (Bed nuclei of the stria terminalis) functionally connects to RR (Midbrain reticular nucleus, retrorubral area)

Species: Mouse
Result: absent
Method: optogenetic circuit mapping
Sign: unknown
Evidence: After optogenetic stimulation of GABAergic BNST neurons, tyrosine hydroxylase-positive A8 neurons showed no c-fos mRNA, whereas nearby TH-negative cells were labelled.
Source: The Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis–Deep Mesencephalic Nucleus Circuit Linking Emotion and Wakefulness
The Journal of Neuroscience, 2025
DOI 10.1523/jneurosci.1083-25.2025 · PubMed 41193254 · PMC12696621, Fig. 1I; Results, section 1
Licence: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
Named in the paper: “GABABNST neurons” and “retrorubral dopaminergic neurons in the A8 region”
Made by: an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-10
Checked by: a second AI model (claude-opus-5-5) agrees, 2026-10-10
“After GABAergic BNST stimulation, TH-positive A8 neurons lacked c-fos mRNA while nearby TH-negative cells were labelled, matching an absent functional activation.”
Status: proposed
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