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VTA (Ventral tegmental area) projects to NTS (Nucleus of the solitary tract)

All claims for this connection
Species
Mouse
Result
present
Method
retrograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Evidence
CTb tracing identified the ventral tegmental area as projecting directly to the DVC.
Source
Named in the paper
“VTA” and “cNTS/DVC”
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 VTA is listed among the CTb-defined direct DVC inputs.”

Status

proposed

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