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VTA (Ventral tegmental area) projects to ACB (Nucleus accumbens)
All claims for this connection- Species
- Mouse
- Result
- present
- Method
- anterograde tracer
- Sign
- unknown
- Strength
- strong
- Evidence
- After Cre-dependent tdTomato injection into the VTA of TH-Cre mice, NAC showed the highest labelling of the forebrain targets examined. It was too dense to segment single axons, and its fluorescence intensity was significantly higher than in BLA or PFC.
- Source
A sex difference in mouse dopaminergic projections from the midbrain to basolateral amygdala
Biology of Sex Differences, 2022
DOI 10.1186/s13293-022-00486-4 · PubMed 36585727 · PMC9801632, Fig. 1C, Fig. 2B, DLicence: CC-BY-4.0
- Named in the paper
- “VTA (dopaminergic neurons, TH-Cre)” and “nucleus accumbens (NAC)”
- Made by
- an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-09
- Checked by
a second AI model (claude-opus-5-5) agrees, 2026-10-09
“NAC had the highest normalized tdTomato intensity, significantly above both BLA and PFC, and was too dense to segment single axons.”
- Status
proposed
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