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PL (Prelimbic area) projects to ACB (Nucleus accumbens)

All claims for this connection
Species
Mouse
Result
present
Method
anterograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Evidence
After bilateral AAV9-ChR2-EYFP injection into the prelimbic prefrontal cortex, fluorescent cortical axons were visualized in the nucleus accumbens region (near the anterior commissure) in coronal slices containing only terminals from the injected region.
Source

The origin of glutamatergic synaptic inputs controls synaptic plasticity and its modulation by alcohol in mice nucleus accumbens

Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience, 2015

DOI 10.3389/fnsyn.2015.00012 · PubMed 26257641 · PMC4507144, Fig. 1A; Methods (Animal Surgeries)
Named in the paper
“prelimbic prefrontal cortex (PFCx)” and “nucleus accumbens (NAc)”
Made by
an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-10
Checked by

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

“The Fig. 1A epifluorescence image shows ChR2-YFP axons from prelimbic cortex near the anterior commissure in the NAc after viral injection.”

Status

proposed

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