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VMH (Ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus) synapses onto PAG (Periaqueductal gray)

Species: Mouse
Result: present
Method: transsynaptic tracer
Sign: unknown
Evidence: Rabies tracing from the PAG vocal gating circuit labelled upstream neurons in the ventromedial hypothalamus.
Source: Circuit and synaptic organization of forebrain-to-midbrain pathways that promote and suppress vocalization
eLife, 2020
DOI 10.7554/elife.63493 · PubMed 33372655 · PMC7793624, Fig. 1—figure supplement 3C
Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Named in the paper: “ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH)” and “PAG-USV neurons and GABAergic PAG neurons”
Made by: an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-10
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“Fig. 1—figure supplement 3C shows VMH input neurons.”
Status: proposed
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