Mouse

PB (Parabrachial nucleus) projects to VTA (Ventral tegmental area)

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

The claims behind it

clm-wcvm67xfa9presentretrograde tracerstrength: weakproposed

The parabrachial nucleus held a dense Nts population, but few of these neurons were tracer-labelled, so they provide minimal VTA input. The co-labelled cells lay where the Nts and tracer-labelled groups of the lateral PB overlap.

DOI 10.1016/j.npep.2018.02.003 · PubMed 29478718 · PMC5906039, Results 3.7; Fig. 12C

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