clm-g496px575j

PA (posterior amygdaloid nucleus) projects to BS (Brain stem)

Species: Rat
Result: present
Method: retrograde tracer
Sign: unknown
Strength: moderate
Evidence: After CB injection into the CSF-contacting nucleus, amygdalohippocampal area neurons were labelled at a moderate density (about 5.2 cells per 0.2 mm2).
Source: Novel Projections to the Cerebrospinal Fluid-Contacting Nucleus From the Subcortex and Limbic System in Rat
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2020
DOI 10.3389/fnana.2020.00057 · PubMed 32973466 · PMC7468392, Fig. 8E; Results, amygdaloid structures
Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Named in the paper: “amygdalohippocampal area (AHi)” and “CSF-contacting nucleus”
Made by: an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-10
Checked by: a second AI model (claude-opus-5-5) agrees, 2026-10-10
“The paper classes AHi as moderate at 5.22.”
Status: proposed
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