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PIR (Piriform area) synapses onto BLA parvalbumin-expressing interneurons

Species: Mouse
Result: present
Method: transsynaptic tracer
Sign: unknown
Strength: strong
Evidence: Piriform cortex densely labelled as input to BLA PV+ neurons, sending more input to PV+ than to VGLUT2+ BLA cells.
Source: Whole-Brain Map of Long-Range Monosynaptic Inputs to Different Cell Types in the Amygdala of the Mouse
Neuroscience Bulletin, 2020
DOI 10.1007/s12264-020-00545-z · PubMed 32691225 · PMC7674542, Fig. 3B-C; Fig. 6A
Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Named in the paper: “Pir” and “BLA PV+ neurons”
Made by: an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-09
Checked by: a second AI model (claude-opus-5-5) agrees, 2026-10-09
“Pir is a dense input to PV+ neurons and sends significantly more to PV+ than to VGLUT2+ cells.”
Status: proposed
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