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ACB (Nucleus accumbens) 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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Rabies tracing from VTA dopamine neurons labelled input cells in the medial shell, lateral shell and core of the nucleus accumbens; accumbens labelling (medial shell and core) was reduced after a single dose of an addictive drug, and CRISPRi knockdown of Cacna1e in the lateral shell lowered the number of rabies-labelled accumbens inputs to VTA dopamine cells.

DOI 10.7554/elife.93664 · PubMed 42138352 · PMC13179063, Fig. 1C, Fig. 5D–E, Fig. 10F

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