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BLA (Basolateral amygdalar nucleus) functionally connects to CP (Caudoputamen)

Species: Mouse
Result: present
Method: optogenetic circuit mapping
Sign: excitatory
Evidence: Optical stimulation of BLA axons also evoked excitatory postsynaptic currents in putative D2 medium spiny neurons of the dorsomedial striatum (6 cells from 6 mice), but these responses were significantly smaller than in D1 neurons (5 cells from 5 mice) at every light intensity tested.
Source: Persistent enhancement of basolateral amygdala-dorsomedial striatum synapses causes compulsive-like behaviors in mice
Nature Communications, 2024
DOI 10.1038/s41467-023-44322-8 · PubMed 38191518 · PMC10774417, Fig. 2k
Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Named in the paper: “BLA” and “D2-MSNs (tdTomato-) in the DMS”
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
“Fig. 2k shows oEPSCs in D2-MSNs that were significantly smaller than in D1-MSNs, with the stated sample sizes.”
Status: proposed
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