clm-hanjd6p5r4
VTA (Ventral tegmental area) projects to ACB (Nucleus accumbens)
All claims for this connection- Species
- Mouse
- Result
- present
- Method
- retrograde tracer
- Sign
- unknown
- Evidence
- Retrograde CAV2-FLEx-Flp injected into the lateral or medial shell of the nucleus accumbens recombined in Cre-expressing VTA dopamine neurons, allowing input tracing from VTADA→NAcLat and VTADA→NAcMed populations and showing that VTA dopamine cells project to these accumbens subregions.
- Source
eLife, 2026
DOI 10.7554/elife.93664 · PubMed 42138352 · PMC13179063, Fig. 7G–L, Fig. 7—figure supplement 2; Methods (cTRIO)Licence: CC-BY-4.0
- Named in the paper
- “VTADA” and “NAcLat / NAcMed”
- Made by
- an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-10
- Checked by
a second AI model (claude-opus-5) agrees, 2026-10-10
“cTRIO with CAV2-FLEx-Flp in NAcLat and NAcMed labeled VTA DA neurons projecting there.”
- Status
proposed
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