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BLA (Basolateral amygdalar nucleus) synapses onto BLA glutamatergic principal neurons

Species: Mouse
Result: present
Method: electron microscopy
Sign: unknown
Evidence: In 7 biocytin-filled PV-expressing axo-axonic cells, axon terminals formed symmetrical synapses mainly on axon initial segments, not on somata or dendrites. Most sampled boutons (41 of 55) contacted axon segments 0.5 to 1 µm in diameter, and the most proximal axon was rarely targeted.
Source: Synaptic Organization of Perisomatic GABAergic Inputs onto the Principal Cells of the Mouse Basolateral Amygdala
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2016
DOI 10.3389/fnana.2016.00020 · PubMed 27013983 · PMC4779893, Fig. 3D,E; Results, 'Postsynaptic targets of AACs'
Named in the paper: “axo-axonic cells (AAC) in the BLA” and “principal cells (PCs) of the BLA”
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) disagrees, 2026-10-10
“The subject is the whole BLA region, but the paper's presynaptic element is the PV-expressing axo-axonic cell population, not the nucleus.”
Status: proposed
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