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PVT (Paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus) projects to ACB (Nucleus accumbens)

Species: Mouse
Result: present
Method: anterograde tracer
Sign: unknown
Evidence: Injection of AAV2-CaMKIIa-ChR2-eYFP into the paraventricular thalamic nucleus labelled terminals in the nucleus accumbens shell, verified histologically beneath the optical fibre placements.
Source: A quadruple dissociation of reward-related behaviour in mice across excitatory inputs to the nucleus accumbens shell
Communications Biology, 2023
DOI 10.1038/s42003-023-04429-6 · PubMed 36717646 · PMC9886947, Fig. 1b,c; Supplementary Fig. 1b,c; Methods (Surgical procedures)
Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Named in the paper: “paraventricular thalamus (PVT)” and “NAcSh”
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
“PVT injections labeled NAcSh terminals confirmed by histology and fiber placement checks.”
Status: proposed
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