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PVH (Paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus) projects to MEA (Medial amygdalar nucleus)

All claims for this connection
Species
Mouse
Result
present
Method
retrograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Evidence
Retrograde oxytocin-promoter AAV injected into the MeA labelled oxytocin-positive PVN neurons, mostly in the caudal PVN, with comparable densities in B6 and BTBR mice (no strain difference, F(1,39) = 1.13, p = 0.294).
Source

Functional disruption of oxytocin projections participates atypical social and anxiety-like behaviours in BTBR mouse model of autism

Open Biology, 2025

DOI 10.1098/rsob.240387 · PubMed 40858267 · PMC12380489, Fig. 5G,H

Licence: CC-BY-4.0

Named in the paper
“PVN (OXTPVN neurons)” and “MeA”
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

“Retrograde OXT-promoter AAV in MeA labelled PVN OXT neurons, predominantly caudal, with no strain difference matching the reported statistic.”

Status

proposed

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