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VTA (Ventral tegmental area) projects to BLA (Basolateral amygdalar nucleus)

All claims for this connection
Species
Mouse
Result
present
Method
retrograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Evidence
RetroBeads placed in the basolateral amygdala labelled tyrosine hydroxylase-positive ventral tegmental area neurons, identifying a VTA dopaminergic projection to the BLA.
Source

Distinct Neuromodulatory Effects of Endogenous Orexin and Dynorphin Corelease on Projection-Defined Ventral Tegmental Dopamine Neurons

The Journal of Neuroscience, 2024

DOI 10.1523/jneurosci.0682-24.2024 · PubMed 39187377 · PMC11426376, Fig. 7A,C

Licence: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Named in the paper
“VTA” and “BLA”
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) agrees, 2026-10-10

“RetroBeads in BLA labeled TH+ VTA neurons, supporting a VTA→BLA projection.”

Status

proposed

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