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sAMY (Striatum-like amygdalar nuclei) projects to PAG (Periaqueductal gray)

Species: Mouse
Result: present
Method: retrograde tracer
Sign: unknown
Evidence: AAV-retro-Cre injected into the caudolateral PAG together with a Cre-dependent fluorophore in the amygdala labelled cell bodies in the central-medial boundary zone, showing these neurons project to the PAG; about 92% of them expressed VGAT.
Source: Circuit and synaptic organization of forebrain-to-midbrain pathways that promote and suppress vocalization
eLife, 2020
DOI 10.7554/elife.63493 · PubMed 33372655 · PMC7793624, Fig. 4A; Fig. 4—figure supplements 1–2
Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Named in the paper: “AmgC/M” and “caudolateral PAG”
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-5-5) agrees, 2026-10-10
“Retro-AAV labelling from the caudolateral PAG marked AmgC/M cells, about 92% of which were VGAT-positive.”
Status: proposed
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