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CEA (Central amygdalar nucleus) projects to Isocortex

All claims for this connection
Species
Mouse
Result
present
Method
retrograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Evidence
A retrograde AAV expressing GFP from a generic promoter was injected into the mPFC, and it labelled CeA neurons. About 15% of labelled CeA cells projected only to the mPFC, and a further ~15% were double-labelled cells that also projected to the vlPAG.
Source

Amygdala GABA Neurons Project To vlPAG And mPFC

IBRO Reports, 2019

DOI 10.1016/j.ibror.2019.03.001 · PubMed 31193158 · PMC6520332, Results; Fig. 3C; Fig. 4A; Table 1

Licence: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

Named in the paper
“CeA” and “mPFC”
Made by
an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-09
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a second AI model (claude-opus-5) agrees, 2026-10-09

“Text reports 15% of CeA labelled cells mPFC-only and ~15% double-labelled, consistent with the claim.”

Status

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