clm-9hr631paa9
AIp (Agranular insular area, posterior part) projects to ACB (Nucleus accumbens)
All claims for this connection- Species
- Mouse
- Result
- present
- Method
- anterograde tracer
- Sign
- unknown
- Strength
- strong
- Evidence
- Dense axonal fibers from pIC glutamatergic neurons were seen in the nucleus accumbens core.
- Source
Linking emotional valence and anxiety in a mouse insula-amygdala circuit
Nature Communications, 2023
DOI 10.1038/s41467-023-40517-1 · PubMed 37604802 · PMC10442438, Fig. 3e; Supplementary Fig. 3f-gLicence: CC-BY-4.0
- Named in the paper
- “pIC” and “nucleus accumbens core (NAc)”
- 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-5-5) agrees, 2026-10-09
“The text reports dense pIC axonal fibers in the NAc core, citing Fig. 3e and Supplementary Fig. 3f-g.”
- Status
proposed
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