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MPO (Medial preoptic area) projects to VTA (Ventral tegmental area)

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

The claims behind it

clm-j65g4ngg7rpresentretrograde tracerstrength: strongproposed

Many Nts neurons in the caudal medial preoptic area were double-labelled after VTA injection, forming a dense cluster around -0.22 to +0.02 bregma. The preoptic area is among the main Nts sources to the VTA.

DOI 10.1016/j.npep.2018.02.003 · PubMed 29478718 · PMC5906039, Results 3.6; Fig. 9B; Table 2

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