Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA) and Substancia Nigra (SN)

Needle trauma in SN

Left: TH-immunostaining of SN and VTA, 2X amplification, coronal slice; Right: VTA at 4X (slice under infrared microscope)
Stereotaxic Coordinates of SN (SNM, SNCD, SNE) from George Paxinos, Charles Watson, The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, 2007, coronal diagram 43
Horizontal slice, TH-immunostaining of Ih-type DA neurons