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SSp (Primary somatosensory area) projects to PAG (Periaqueductal gray)

All claims for this connection
Species
Rat
Result
present
Method
anterograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Strength
weak
Evidence
Weak, inconsistent label in the lateral periaqueductal gray was present in most but not all genital cortex injection animals.
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 “lateral periaqueductal gray”
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

“Lateral periaqueductal gray is listed among the weak, inconsistent targets.”

Status

proposed

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