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ILA (Infralimbic area) projects to ACB (Nucleus accumbens)

All claims for this connection
Species
Rat
Result
present
Method
anterograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Evidence
After AAV-CaMKIIα-eNpHR3.0-eYFP or eYFP injection into the infralimbic cortex, fluorescent virus-labelled IL axon terminals were seen in the nucleus accumbens shell beneath the optical fibre tip.
Source

Extinction of Heroin Seeking Does Not Require the Infralimbic Cortex or Its Projections to the Nucleus Accumbens Shell or Amygdala

Addiction Biology, 2025

DOI 10.1111/adb.70092 · PubMed 41117403 · PMC12538630, Fig. 2A

Licence: CC-BY-4.0

Named in the paper
“IL” and “NAshell”
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) agrees, 2026-10-09

“Figure 2A caption reports viral eYFP-labelled IL terminals in the NAshell at the fibre site after IL AAV injection in rats.”

Status

proposed

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