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VTA (Ventral tegmental area) functionally connects to BLA (Basolateral amygdalar nucleus)
All claims for this connection- Species
- Mouse
- Result
- present
- Method
- optogenetic circuit mapping
- Sign
- excitatory
- Evidence
- In slices, ChR2 activation of VTA dopaminergic terminals evoked fast, DNQX-sensitive inward currents in a third of recorded BA neurons; the currents persisted in TTX plus 4-AP, showing monosynaptic glutamate co-release. Connection rates were similar in anterior and posterior BA.
- Measurements
- connection probability: 0.333, n = 90
- Source
State-specific gating of salient cues by midbrain dopaminergic input to basal amygdala
Nature Neuroscience, 2019
DOI 10.1038/s41593-019-0506-0 · PubMed 31611706 · PMC6858554, Fig. 7b,c,e,h,iLicence: http://www.springer.com/tdm
- Named in the paper
- “VTADA➜BA axons” and “BA 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) agrees, 2026-10-09
“Paper reports 30/90 BA neurons with monosynaptic DNQX-sensitive currents (TTX/4-AP verified) and similar rates along the anterior-posterior axis.”
- Status
proposed
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