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SUBMITTER: Soden ME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7927312 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Soden Marta E ME Chung Amanda S AS Cuevas Beatriz B Resnick Jesse M JM Awatramani Rajeshwar R Zweifel Larry S LS
Nature neuroscience 20200615 8
The ventral tegmental area (VTA) is important for reward processing and motivation. The anatomic organization of neurotransmitter-specific inputs to the VTA remains poorly resolved. In the present study, we mapped the major neurotransmitter projections to the VTA through cell-type-specific retrograde and anterograde tracing. We found that glutamatergic inputs arose from a variety of sources and displayed some connectivity biases toward specific VTA cell types. The sources of GABAergic projection ...[more]