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PVT (Paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus) projects to ACB (Nucleus accumbens)
All claims for this connection- Species
- Mouse
- Result
- present
- Method
- anterograde tracer
- Sign
- unknown
- Evidence
- After AAV-CaMK2-ChR2 injection into the paraventricular thalamus, labelled axon terminals were visible in the nucleus accumbens of D2-eGFP mice.
- Source
Nucleus accumbens D1/D2 circuits control opioid withdrawal symptoms in mice
Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2023
DOI 10.1172/jci163266 · PubMed 37561576 · PMC10503809, Fig. 5BLicence: CC-BY-4.0
- Named in the paper
- “PVT” and “NAc”
- Made by
- an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-09
- Checked by
a second AI model (claude-opus-5) agrees, 2026-10-09
“ChR2 expression in PVT terminals within NAc of D2-eGFP mice is shown after PVT viral injection.”
- Status
proposed
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