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ZI (Zona incerta) synapses onto PVT (Paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus)
All claims for this connection- Species
- Mouse
- Result
- present
- Method
- transsynaptic tracer
- Sign
- unknown
- Evidence
- Neurons in the zona incerta were retrogradely labelled by monosynaptic rabies tracing from PVT D2R-expressing cells.
- Source
Dopamine D2 Receptors in the Paraventricular Thalamus Attenuate Cocaine Locomotor Sensitization
eneuro, 2017
DOI 10.1523/eneuro.0227-17.2017 · PubMed 29071300 · PMC5654238, Fig. 5H; Table 1Licence: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Named in the paper
- “zona incerta (ZI)” and “D2R-expressing PVT neurons”
- 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-5-5) agrees, 2026-10-10
“Zona incerta cell bodies were labelled, as shown in Fig. 5H.”
- Status
proposed
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