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MEA (Medial amygdalar nucleus) projects to CEA (Central amygdalar nucleus)

All claims for this connection
Species
Mouse
Result
present
Method
retrograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Strength
strong
Evidence
A retrograde AAV-fDIO-mCherry placed in the medial CeA of Avp-Flp::GFP mice robustly labelled GFP-positive AVP neurons in the posterodorsal and anteroventral medial amygdala in both sexes; the MePD was labelled in every animal examined.
Source

Amygdala AVPR1A mediates susceptibility to chronic social isolation in female mice

Nature Communications, 2025

DOI 10.1038/s41467-025-64742-y · PubMed 41188217 · PMC12586453, Fig. 5a, b; Supplementary Fig. 9c–k

Licence: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

Named in the paper
“MePD and MeAV (AVP neurons)” and “medial aspect of the CeA”
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

“Robust retrograde labelling of AVP neurons in MePD (100% of mice) and MeAV from medial CeA.”

Status

proposed

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