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BST (Bed nuclei of the stria terminalis) projects to MRN (Midbrain reticular nucleus)

Species: Mouse
Result: present
Method: anterograde tracer
Sign: unknown
Strength: strong
Evidence: Cre-dependent ChR2-EYFP injected into the BNST of Vgat-ires-Cre mice labelled dense GABAergic BNST axons within the DpMe.
Source: The Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis–Deep Mesencephalic Nucleus Circuit Linking Emotion and Wakefulness
The Journal of Neuroscience, 2025
DOI 10.1523/jneurosci.1083-25.2025 · PubMed 41193254 · PMC12696621, Results, section 1; Fig. 1H; Fig. 2B; Fig. 5B
Licence: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
Named in the paper: “GABABNST neurons” and “deep mesencephalic nucleus (DpMe)”
Made by: an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-10
Checked by: a second AI model (claude-opus-5-5) agrees, 2026-10-10
“The Results describe dense ChR2-EYFP-labelled axons from GABAergic BNST neurons in the DpMe, which the cited figures show.”
Status: proposed
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