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BST (Bed nuclei of the stria terminalis) projects to CP (Caudoputamen)

Species: Rat
Result: present
Method: retrograde tracer
Sign: unknown
Evidence: Retrograde AAVretro-DIO-GFP injected in the dorsal striatum of CRF-Cre;tdTomato rats labelled GFP+/tdTomato+ cells in the BNST, demonstrating a CRF-positive BNST projection to the dorsal striatum; both the proportion (p<0.001) and density (p<0.01) of dorsal striatum-projecting CRF neurons were greater in BNST than in CeA (8 sections from 5 rats).
Source: Alcohol attenuates CRF-induced excitatory effects from the extended amygdala to dorsostriatal cholinergic interneurons
eLife, 2026
DOI 10.7554/elife.107145 · PubMed 41870239 · PMC13008356, Fig. 3A, 3B, 3D–3F
Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Named in the paper: “BNST CRF+ (tdTomato+) neurons” and “dorsal striatum”
Made by: an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-10
Checked by: a second AI model (claude-opus-5) agrees, 2026-10-10
“Retrograde AAV in rat dorsal striatum labelled BNST CRF+ neurons, with the quoted proportion/density statistics and n=8/5.”
Status: proposed
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