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SSp (Primary somatosensory area) projects to MPO (Medial preoptic area)

All claims for this connection
Species
Rat
Result
absent
Method
anterograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Evidence
No anterograde label from genital cortex injections was found in the medial preoptic area.
Source

Physiological and Anatomical Outputs of Rat Genital Cortex

Cerebral Cortex, 2018

DOI 10.1093/cercor/bhx359 · PubMed 29373631 · PMC6093453, Results, Consistent Subcortical Projections, Inconsistent Projections and Absence of Projections

Licence: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Named in the paper
“genital cortex” and “medial preoptic area”
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

“The paper states there were no projections to the medial preoptic area.”

Status

proposed

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