Mouse

PVH (Paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus) synapses onto VTA (Ventral tegmental area)

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

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clm-x21h4ps5f6presenttranssynaptic tracerproposed

Neurons in the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus were labelled by monosynaptic rabies tracing from VTA dopamine cells, and this input was more strongly labelled in ketamine/xylazine-anesthetized mice.

DOI 10.7554/elife.93664 · PubMed 42138352 · PMC13179063, Fig. 1C, Fig. 5E, Fig. 7B

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