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

Species: Mouse
Result: present
Method: optogenetic circuit mapping
Sign: inhibitory
Evidence: Chrimson expressed in CRF-Cre neurons of the BNST (injected together with CeA) allowed optical activation of their striatal fibres, which produced fast optically evoked IPSCs in cholinergic interneurons; TTX abolished and TTX+4-AP restored the response, and bicuculline blocked it, indicating a monosynaptic GABAergic connection.
Measurements: conduction delay: 6.5 ms, n = 8
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. 3G–3J
Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Named in the paper: “BNST CRF+ neurons” and “dorsal striatal cholinergic interneurons (CINs)”
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
“Chrimson in CRF-Cre BNST/CeA evoked ~6.5 ms GABAergic monosynaptic currents in CINs (n=8).”
Status: proposed
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