Mouse
BLA (Basolateral amygdalar nucleus) projects to CEA (Central amygdalar nucleus)
3 claims from 3 sources: 3 found, 0 tested and absent, 0 ambiguous. Evidence: anterograde tracer, retrograde tracer.
The claims behind it
After injecting Cre-dependent ChR2-mCherry or eNpHR3.0-EYFP virus into the BLA of CaMKII-Cre mice, labelled axonal fibers were present in the CeA, where optical fibers were implanted and terminal photostimulation was performed.
DOI 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.100277 · PubMed 33428940 · PMC7948800, Fig. 3, A, B and H; Experimental proceduresMade by an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5, extract@0.3.0); a second AI model (claude-opus-5-5) disagrees. “The cited panels and text show viral expression only at the BLA injection site; the paper never shows or describes labelled BLA fibers in the CeA as tracing evidence.”
CTB555 injected into the central amygdala, aimed at its centromedial part, retrogradely labelled BLA neurons. Some BLA cells were double-labelled from both NAc and CeA injections.
DOI 10.1038/s41398-024-03085-6 · PubMed 39300117 · PMC11412998, Fig. 2A-C; Fig. S4DMade by an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5-5, extract@0.3.0); a second AI model (claude-opus-5-5) agrees.
Retrograde AAV from the CeA of Oprm1-Cre mice labelled 11105 basolateral amygdala neurons, 78% of which expressed Oprm1.
DOI 10.1038/s41386-025-02298-7 · PubMed 41419678 · PMC13125285, Fig. 5eMade by an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5, extract@0.3.0); a second AI model (claude-opus-5) agrees.