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BLA (Basolateral amygdalar nucleus) projects to ACB (Nucleus accumbens)

Species: Mouse
Result: present
Method: retrograde tracer
Sign: unknown
Evidence: Two different retrograde dyes injected separately into the dorsomedial striatum and the nucleus accumbens each labelled BLA neurons, but only a few BLA cells were double-labelled, indicating that accumbens-projecting and striatum-projecting BLA populations are largely separate.
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. 3e
Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Named in the paper: “BLA” and “NAc”
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
“Dual retrograde dye injection into DMS and NAc labelled BLA neurons with little overlap, as described for Fig. 3e.”
Status: proposed
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