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BLA (basal amygdaloid nucleus) projects to ACB (Nucleus accumbens)

Species: Rat
Result: present
Method: retrograde tracer
Sign: unknown
Evidence: Iontophoretic injection of the retrograde tracer fluorogold into the accumbens shell of rats produced retrogradely labelled cell bodies distributed throughout the basolateral amygdala one to two weeks later, showing that this amygdala region sends axons to the accumbens shell.
Source: Maturation of silent synapses in amygdala-accumbens projection contributes to incubation of cocaine craving
Nature Neuroscience, 2013
DOI 10.1038/nn.3533 · PubMed 24077564 · PMC3815713, Fig. 1A,B; Results, 'Recording of BLA-to-NAc shell excitatory synapses'
Named in the paper: “BLA” and “NAc 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
“Fluorogold into NAc shell retrogradely labeled BLA neurons, matching direction, species and locator.”
Status: proposed
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