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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
retrograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Evidence
Fluorogold deposited in the nucleus accumbens labelled neurons in the paraventricular thalamic nucleus, which were co-labelled for c-Fos and probed for KOR mRNA, indicating a PVT projection to NAc.
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. 3D-G; Fig. 6A-C

Licence: 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

“Fluorogold injected in NAc labelled PVT neurons examined for c-Fos and KOR mRNA.”

Status

proposed

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