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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
- Strength
- strong
- Evidence
- Dense dopaminergic axon labelling from the VTA injection was observed in the central amygdala. It was too dense for axonal segmentation, as in NAC.
- 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, Results, sex difference section (Fig. 4C text)Licence: CC-BY-4.0
- Named in the paper
- “VTA (dopaminergic neurons, TH-Cre)” and “central amygdala (CEA)”
- 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
“The text reports dense dopaminergic labelling in CEA that was too dense for axon segmentation, as in NAC.”
- Status
proposed
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