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VTA (Ventral tegmental area) projects to AAA (Anterior amygdalar area)

All claims for this connection
Species
Mouse
Result
present
Method
anterograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Evidence
In Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas experiment 156314762, an anterograde tracer injected into VTA of a Th-IRES-CreER mouse, the tracer Cre-dependent (38% of the injection in VTA) labelled axons in AAA (projection density 0.017).
Measurements
  • projection density: 0.017013
Source

A mesoscale connectome of the mouse brain

Nature, 2014

DOI 10.1038/nature13186, Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas, experiment 156314762
Made by
an adapter reading a database (allen-connectivity@1.3.0), 2026-10-08
Status

proposed

Most of the injected tracer landed outside the region it names.