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VTA (Ventral tegmental area) projects to ACB (Nucleus accumbens)

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

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Retrograde Cholera Toxin B placed in the nucleus accumbens labelled neurons in the ventral tegmental area; a larger share of these NAc-projecting VTA cells were cFos positive after 10-Hz phasic than after 25-Hz tonic locus coeruleus stimulation.

DOI 10.1093/texcom/tgab026 · PubMed 34296171 · PMC8152946, Supplementary Fig. S6 (described in Results, last paragraph)

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