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. 2021 Jun 16;8(3):ENEURO.0016-21.2021. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0016-21.2021

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Figure 1. — Projections of the midbrain dopamine regions and their neurochemical interaction with the LHb. A, Sagittal view of the rat brain, depicting efferent pathways of midbrain dopamine regions and their input from the LHb. B, Synaptic relationships between neurons in the VTA and inputs (direct and through the RMTg) from the LHb. DA, dopamine (orange); GABA, green; Glu, glutamate (blue); dSTR, dorsal striatum. The image of the rat was adapted from https://smart.servier.com/smart_image/rat, under the terms of the CC-BY 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Rat brain adapted from Juarez et al. (2013).