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VTA (Ventral tegmental area) projects to OT (Olfactory tubercle)

All claims for this connection
Species
Mouse
Result
present
Method
retrograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Evidence
Injecting CTb into the mOT retrogradely labeled VTA neurons. Some of these mOT-projecting VTA cells became Fos-positive when the mice were exposed to male bedding volatiles.
Source

DREADD-Induced Silencing of the Medial Olfactory Tubercle Disrupts the Preference of Female Mice for Opposite-Sex Chemosignals

eneuro, 2015

DOI 10.1523/eneuro.0078-15.2015 · PubMed 26478911 · PMC4603255, Results, Experiment 1; Fig. 3C; Fig. 4B,F,I
Named in the paper
“ventral tegmental area (VTA)” and “medial olfactory tubercle (mOT)”
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

“CTb in the mOT retrogradely labeled VTA neurons, and some were Fos-positive after male bedding volatiles.”

Status

proposed

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