Altier N, Stewart J (1998). Dopamine receptor antagonist in the nucleus accumbens attenuate analgesia induced by ventral tegmental area substance P or morphine and by nucleus accumbens amphetamine.

This image illustrates the dual-viral injection method used to label nucleus accumbens-projecting ventral tegmental area neurons.

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Caption A light-sheet microscope 3D image displays the convergence of dopaminergic transmitter inputs from the ventral tegmental area (green), a midbrain structure associated with reward and ...