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CEA (Central amygdalar nucleus) projects to ACB (Nucleus accumbens)

All claims for this connection
Species
Mouse
Result
present
Method
anterograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Strength
strong
Evidence
Cre-dependent synaptophysin-mCherry injected in the CeA of Avpr1a-Cre mice labelled boutons in the nucleus accumbens shell, among the prominent target sites in females.
Source
Named in the paper
“AVPR1ACeA neurons” and “shell of the nucleus accumbens (NAcc Shell)”
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

“NAcc shell is listed among the prominent AVPR1A CeA projection sites.”

Status

proposed

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