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VTA (Ventral tegmental area) projects to PL (Prelimbic area)

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

The claims behind it

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Retrograde CAV2-FLEx-Flp delivered to medial prefrontal cortex recombined in Cre-positive VTA dopamine neurons, defining a VTADA→mPFC population and showing that VTA dopamine cells project to medial prefrontal cortex.

DOI 10.7554/elife.93664 · PubMed 42138352 · PMC13179063, Fig. 7—figure supplement 2E–H; Methods (cTRIO, mPFC injections)

Made by an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5, extract@0.3.0); a second AI model (claude-opus-5) is unsure. “The paper specifies only mPFC as the retrograde injection site, so the prelimbic-specific assignment is not established.”