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CEA (central amygdaloid nucleus) projects to PAG (Periaqueductal gray)

All claims for this connection
Species
Rat
Result
present
Method
anterograde tracer
Sign
unknown
Strength
strong
Evidence
The authors report pronounced mCherry-labelled projections from CeA PKCδ+ neurons to the ventrolateral column of the periaqueductal gray.
Source

Generation and Characterization of a NovelPrkcd-Cre Rat Model

The Journal of Neuroscience, 2024

DOI 10.1523/jneurosci.0528-24.2024 · PubMed 38977300 · PMC11308323, Fig. 4F; Results, Anterograde tracing of CeA PKCδ+ neurons

Licence: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Named in the paper
“CeA PKCδ+ neurons” and “ventrolateral periaqueductal gray (vlPAG)”
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) agrees, 2026-10-10

“Paper describes strong projections to vlPAG in Fig. 4F.”

Status

proposed

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