Organization of the ascending projections from the ventral tegmental area: A multiple fluorescent retrograde tracer study in the rat

The projections from the ventral tegmental area of Tsai (VTA) to the frontal cortex (FC), lateral septum (LS), nucleus accumbens (Acc), caudateputamen (CPu), and lateral habenula (LH) were investigated in the rat by means of the double retrograde fluorescent tracer technique.

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