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PL (Prelimbic area) projects to ACB (Nucleus accumbens)

All claims for this connection
Species
Mouse
Result
present
Method
retrograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Strength
strong
Evidence
Retrograde CTB in the nucleus accumbens labelled prelimbic cortex neurons in addition to IL neurons, and retrobeads placed in the NAc allowed recordings from identified PL-NAc projection neurons.
Source

Fear extinction requires infralimbic cortex projections to the basolateral amygdala

Translational Psychiatry, 2018

DOI 10.1038/s41398-018-0106-x · PubMed 29507292 · PMC5838104, Fig. 1c–d; Fig. 3a,h–k; Results, 'Separate IL and PL projections to BLA and NAc'

Licence: CC-BY-4.0

Named in the paper
“PL” and “NAc”
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

“CTB in NAc labelled PL neurons and PL-NAc retrobead-labelled cells were patched.”

Status

proposed

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