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VTA (Ventral tegmental area) projects to BLA (Basolateral amygdalar nucleus)
All claims for this connection- Species
- Mouse
- Result
- present
- Method
- anterograde tracer
- Sign
- unknown
- Strength
- moderate
- Evidence
- Cre-dependent tdTomato and SypGFP AAVs injected into the VTA of TH-Cre mice labelled dopaminergic axons and boutons throughout the BLA. Labelling there was intermediate, below the nucleus accumbens and above the prefrontal cortex. Within the amygdala the labelling was concentrated in the BLA, and bouton density per labelled VTA cell was about twice as high in males as in females.
- Source
A sex difference in mouse dopaminergic projections from the midbrain to basolateral amygdala
Biology of Sex Differences, 2022
DOI 10.1186/s13293-022-00486-4 · PubMed 36585727 · PMC9801632, Fig. 1B, Fig. 2C-D, Figs. 3-6Licence: CC-BY-4.0
- Named in the paper
- “VTA (dopaminergic neurons, TH-Cre)” and “basolateral amygdala (BLA)”
- 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
“Tracing labelled VTA dopaminergic axons and boutons in BLA at intermediate intensity, and female bouton density was about half of male.”
- Status
proposed
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