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VTA (Ventral tegmental area) projects to BLA (Basolateral amygdalar nucleus)
All claims for this connection- Species
- Mouse
- Result
- present
- Method
- retrograde tracer
- Sign
- unknown
- Evidence
- Retrograde AAVrg-hSyn-EGFP injected into the BLA labelled cell bodies in the ventral tegmental area, showing that VTA neurons provide input to the BLA.
- Source
Social memory deficit caused by dysregulation of the cerebellar vermis
Nature Communications, 2023
DOI 10.1038/s41467-023-41744-2 · PubMed 37752149 · PMC10522595, Fig. 8fLicence: CC-BY-4.0
- Named in the paper
- “ventral tegmental area (VTA)” and “basolateral amygdala (BLA)”
- 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-5-5) agrees, 2026-10-09
“EGFP-labelled somas in the VTA are reported for Fig. 8f.”
- Status
proposed
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