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COA (cortical amygdaloid nucleus) projects to ACB (Nucleus accumbens)

All claims for this connection
Species
Rat
Result
present
Method
retrograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Evidence
A Fluoro-Gold injection confined to the accumbens core retrogradely labelled neurons in layer III of the posterolateral cortical amygdaloid nucleus.
Source

Projections from the posterolateral olfactory amygdala to the ventral striatum: neural basis for reinforcing properties of chemical stimuli

BMC Neuroscience, 2007

DOI 10.1186/1471-2202-8-103 · PubMed 18047654 · PMC2216080, Fig. 4C,D
Named in the paper
“posterolateral cortical amygdaloid nucleus” and “core of the nucleus accumbens”
Made by
an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-09
Checked by

a second AI model (claude-opus-5-5) agrees, 2026-10-09

“A Fluoro-Gold injection confined to the accumbens core labelled layer III neurons of the nucleus, as Fig. 4C,D shows.”

Status

proposed

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