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LHA (Lateral hypothalamic area) projects to VTA (Ventral tegmental area)

1 claim from 1 source: 1 found, 0 tested and absent, 0 ambiguous. Evidence: retrograde tracer.

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The lateral hypothalamic area contained a sizeable Nts population between -1.30 and -1.70 bregma, many of them labelled from the VTA. This made the LHA a major Nts source to the VTA.

DOI 10.1016/j.npep.2018.02.003 · PubMed 29478718 · PMC5906039, Results 3.6; Fig. 10B; Fig. 4

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