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LC (Locus ceruleus) projects to BLA (Basolateral amygdalar nucleus)

All claims for this connection
Species
Mouse
Result
present
Method
retrograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Strength
strong
Evidence
Fluorogold injected into the BLA retrogradely labelled many neurons in the posterior locus coeruleus, and these cells were immunopositive for the norepinephrine transporter.
Source

Gastric vagal afferent signaling to the basolateral amygdala mediates anxiety-like behaviors in experimental colitis mice

JCI Insight, 2023

DOI 10.1172/jci.insight.161874 · PubMed 37200091 · PMC10371239, Fig. 6A–C

Licence: CC-BY-4.0

Named in the paper
“LC” and “BLA”
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-5-5) agrees, 2026-10-09

“Fluorogold injected into the BLA labeled abundant NET-positive neurons in the posterior LC (Fig. 6A–C), which supports a strong projection.”

Status

proposed

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