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MPO (Medial preoptic area) synapses onto MY (Medulla)

All claims for this connection
Species
Mouse
Result
present
Method
transsynaptic tracer
Sign
unknown
Evidence
Small numbers of rabies-labelled presynaptic neurons were observed in the medial preoptic area for both preBötC starter populations.
Source

Monosynaptic Projections to Excitatory and Inhibitory preBötzinger Complex Neurons

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2020

DOI 10.3389/fnana.2020.00058 · PubMed 33013329 · PMC7507425, Results, suprapontine projections (Figure 4)

Licence: CC-BY-4.0

Named in the paper
“medial preoptic area” and “preBötC”
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

“Medial preoptic area is listed among hypothalamic compartments with labelled neurons.”

Status

proposed

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