MPOA Neurons (IMAGE)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

MPOA Neurons

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This image shows Galanin-positive MPOA neurons (in red) and, in blue, those MPOA neurons that project to a motor command region of the brain (the periaqueductal gray, PAG).

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Dulac Lab/Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Harvard

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