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AI (Agranular insular area) projects to CEA (Central amygdalar nucleus)

Species: Mouse
Result: present
Method: retrograde tracer
Sign: unknown
Evidence: Retrograde tracer injected into the central amygdala labelled insular cortex neurons, mainly in layer 5 with an additional population in layer 2/3; these cells were largely separate from accumbens-projecting IC cells.
Source: Insular cortical circuits as an executive gateway to decipher threat or extinction memory via distinct subcortical pathways
Nature Communications, 2022
DOI 10.1038/s41467-022-33241-9 · PubMed 36130959 · PMC9492683, Supplementary Fig. 5a–e; Results (Nonoverlapping IC-CeA and IC-NAc projectors)
Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Named in the paper: “IC” and “CeA”
Made by: an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-09
Checked by: a second AI model (claude-opus-5) agrees, 2026-10-09
“Retrograde labeling from CeA marked distinct IC neurons, mostly layer 5 with more in layer 2/3.”
Status: proposed
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