clm-mpxgdc6dk4
MEA (Medial amygdalar nucleus) synapses onto VMH (Ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus)
All claims for this connection- Species
- Mouse
- Result
- present
- Method
- transsynaptic tracer
- Sign
- unknown
- Evidence
- Pre-mGRASP was expressed in MeApv and post-mGRASP in VmHvl. Reconstituted GFP puncta, marking MeApv-VmHvl synapses, appeared on the shafts and spines of VmHvl dendrites. These puncta increased in number and size seven days after foot-shock stress.
- Source
Visualizing traumatic stress-induced structural plasticity in a medial amygdala pathway using mGRASP
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2023
DOI 10.3389/fnmol.2023.1313635 · PubMed 38098941 · PMC10720331, Fig. 1D-J; Supplementary Fig. 2Licence: CC-BY-4.0
- Named in the paper
- “MeApv” and “VmHvl”
- 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
“Reconstituted GFP puncta on VmHvl dendritic shafts and spines mark MeApv-VmHvl synapses, and their number and size rose after foot shock (Fig. 1G-J, Supp. Fig. 2).”
- Status
proposed
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