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AI (Agranular insular area) projects to BLA (Basolateral amygdalar nucleus)

Species: Mouse
Result: present
Method: retrograde tracer
Sign: unknown
Evidence: Injection of the retrograde tracer CTB-488 into the BLA labelled a population of neurons in the insular cortex, which were subsequently targeted for whole-cell recording as BLA-projecting IC neurons.
Source: Distinct basolateral amygdala excitatory inputs mediate the somatosensory and aversive-affective components of pain
Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2022
DOI 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102207 · PubMed 35772494 · PMC9304789, Fig. 5, E and F
Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Named in the paper: “IC” and “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) agrees, 2026-10-09
“Fig. 5E, F show CTB-488 injected in BLA labelling IC neurons.”
Status: proposed
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