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VTA (Ventral tegmental area) projects to BLA (Basolateral amygdalar nucleus)
All claims for this connection- Species
- Mouse
- Result
- present
- Method
- anterograde tracer
- Sign
- unknown
- Strength
- strong
- Evidence
- Cre-dependent mCherry expressed in VTA dopamine neurons labelled axons within the basolateral complex that were concentrated in the basal nucleus rather than the lateral nucleus, across anterior, middle and posterior levels (4 mice).
- Source
State-specific gating of salient cues by midbrain dopaminergic input to basal amygdala
Nature Neuroscience, 2019
DOI 10.1038/s41593-019-0506-0 · PubMed 31611706 · PMC6858554, Fig. 2a; Supplementary Fig. 3cLicence: http://www.springer.com/tdm
- Named in the paper
- “VTA dopamine neurons (DAT-IRES-Cre)” and “basal amygdala (BA)”
- 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) agrees, 2026-10-09
“Anterograde Cre-dependent mCherry from VTA dopamine neurons densely labeled BA over LA in 4 mice across AP levels.”
- Status
proposed
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