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PIR (Piriform area) synapses onto BLA (Basolateral amygdalar nucleus)

All claims for this connection
Species
Mouse
Result
present
Method
transsynaptic tracer
Sign
unknown
Strength
strong
Evidence
Piriform cortex was the largest input source labelled by rabies tracing from BLA axo-axonic cells.
Measurements
  • fraction of labelled neurons: 0.131 (SEM 0.011), n = 3
Source

Specific and comprehensive genetic targeting reveals brain-wide distribution and synaptic input patterns of GABAergic axo-axonic interneurons

eLife, 2024

DOI 10.7554/elife.93481 · PubMed 39012795 · PMC11251723, Fig. 9c,e

Licence: CC-BY-4.0

Named in the paper
“PIR” and “AACsBLA”
Made by
an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5-5, extract@0.3.0), 2026-10-10
Checked by

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

“PIR provides 13.1 ± 1.1% of inputs to BLA AACs, the strongest source.”

Status

proposed

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