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

Species: Rat
Result: present
Method: anterograde tracer
Sign: unknown
Strength: strong
Evidence: Layer II injections labelled some fibres in the caudal lateral/ventrolateral shell of the accumbens. A layer III injection (case 9905) labelled the accumbens core densely.
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. 2E; Fig. 3D
Named in the paper: “posterolateral cortical amygdaloid nucleus” and “nucleus accumbens (core and lateral shell)”
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) disagrees, 2026-10-09
“The strong rating is supported only for the core after a single layer III injection, while the lateral shell got just some fibres, so the merged claim overstates strength.”
Status: proposed
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