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MPO (Medial preoptic area) projects to VTA (Ventral tegmental area)
All claims for this connection- Species
- Mouse
- Result
- present
- Method
- retrograde tracer
- Sign
- unknown
- Strength
- strong
- Evidence
- Many Nts neurons in the caudal medial preoptic area were double-labelled after VTA injection, forming a dense cluster around -0.22 to +0.02 bregma. The preoptic area is among the main Nts sources to the VTA.
- Source
Determination of neurotensin projections to the ventral tegmental area in mice
Neuropeptides, 2018
DOI 10.1016/j.npep.2018.02.003 · PubMed 29478718 · PMC5906039, Results 3.6; Fig. 9B; Table 2Licence: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
- Named in the paper
- “MPO Nts neurons” and “VTA”
- 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-5-5) agrees, 2026-10-09
“Many MPO Nts/FG+ neurons formed a dense cluster between -0.22 and +0.02 bregma.”
- Status
proposed
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