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VTA (Ventral tegmental area) projects to CEA (Central amygdalar nucleus)
All claims for this connection- Species
- Mouse
- Result
- present
- Method
- anterograde tracer
- Sign
- unknown
- Evidence
- Cre-dependent ChR2-mCherry injected into the VTA of Vglut2-Cre mice labelled cell bodies in the VTA and axon terminals in the central nucleus of the amygdala, showing that VTA glutamatergic neurons send axons to the CeA.
- Source
Control of Behavioral Arousal and Defense by a Glutamatergic Midbrain-Amygdala Pathway in Mice
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022
DOI 10.3389/fnins.2022.850193 · PubMed 35527820 · PMC9070111, Fig. 4A,BLicence: CC-BY-4.0
- Named in the paper
- “VTA” and “CeA”
- 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) agrees, 2026-10-10
“AAV-mediated anterograde labeling from VTA showed mCherry terminals in CeA as shown in Fig. 4B.”
- Status
proposed
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