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COAa (Cortical amygdalar area, anterior part) projects to ACB (Nucleus accumbens)

All claims for this connection
Species
Mouse
Result
present
Method
retrograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Strength
weak
Evidence
Accumbens shell injections retrogradely labeled a few cells in the anterior cortical amygdaloid nucleus.
Source

Amygdaloid projections to the ventral striatum in mice: direct and indirect chemosensory inputs to the brain reward system

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2011

DOI 10.3389/fnana.2011.00054 · PubMed 22007159 · PMC3159391, Table 1; Fig. 2B
Named in the paper
“COAa” and “Acb”
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

“Shell injections labeled few cells at the COAa/CxA edge, and the lateral-shell injection labeled scarce COAa cells.”

Status

proposed

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