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Projections from the Prefrontal Cortex to Zona Incerta Mediate Fear Generalization

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This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81870852 and 82171199), the Qing Lan Project of Jiangsu Province, the Education Department of Jiangsu Province (18KJA320007), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20181146 and BK20210911), the Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (KYCX21_2706, KYCX21_2703, and YCX21_2717), the Program on Basic Research Projects of Xuzhou City (KC21048), and the Special Funds for Anesthesia Medical Research of Jiangsu Medical Association SYH-32021-0040 (2021035).

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    Kun Tong, Guang-Kai Bu, Tong Wu, Yu-Tong Song, Yue You, Le Liu, Yuan-Hao Chen, Jing-Ru Hao, Nan Sun & Can Gao

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    Tong Wu

  4. School of Life Sciences, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, 221004, China

    Can Gao

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Tong, K., Bu, GK., Jing, SQ. et al. Projections from the Prefrontal Cortex to Zona Incerta Mediate Fear Generalization. Neurosci. Bull. 39, 1151–1156 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-023-01046-5

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