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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Sep 9.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroscience. 2007 Mar 28;146(3):1259–1274. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.02.016

Table 1.

Synaptic Targets of VGlut Labeled Axons in the Rat VTA

I. Tissue labeled for TH

VGlut1 input to dendrites labeled for: VGlut2 input to dendrites labeled for:
Unlabeled TH FG FG+TH Unlabeled TH FG FG+TH


A. Retrograde transport from NAc
 Total synapses
  86 (61%) 39 (28%) 3 (2%) 12 (9%) 112 (44%) 92 (37%) 19 (8%) 29 (12%)
 Asymmetric/Symmetric
  84/2 39/0 3/0 12/0 102/10 77/15 18/1 25/4
B. Retrograde transport from PFC
 Total synapses
  62 (50%) 55 (44%) 3 (2%) 5 (4%) 70 (39%) 91 (51%) 7 (4%) 10 (6%)
 Asymmetric/Symmetric
 56/6 51/4 3/0 4/1 67/3 80/11 7/0 10/0

II. Tissue labeled for GABA

VGlut1 input to dendrites labeled for: VGlut2 input to dendrites labeled for:
Unlabeled GABA FG FG+GABA Unlabeled GABA FG FG+GABA


A. Retrograde transport from NAc
 Total synapses
  42 (53%) 25 (31%) 4 (5%) 9 (11%) 57 (31%) 76 (42%) 20 (11%) 30 (16%)
 Asymmetric/Symmetric
  42/0 24/1 4/0 9/0 52/5 63/13 20/0 29/1
B. Retrograde transport from PFC
 Total synapses
  79 (60%) 41 (31%) 9 (7%) 2 (2%) 107 (59%) 43 (24%) 10 (5%) 22 (12%)
 Asymmetric/Symmetric
 78/1 40/1 9/0 2/0 97/10 35/8 9/1 21/1