Mouse

BLA (Basolateral amygdalar nucleus) projects to PAG (Periaqueductal gray)

1 claim from 1 source: 1 found, 0 tested and absent, 0 ambiguous. Evidence: retrograde tracer.

The claims behind it

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After a Cre-dependent retrograde tdTomato AAV was injected into the vlPAG of VGAT-Cre mice, GABAergic neurons in the basolateral amygdala were labelled. About 57% of labelled BLA neurons projected to the vlPAG, and roughly 28% were bifurcating cells that also projected to the mPFC.

DOI 10.1016/j.ibror.2019.03.001 · PubMed 31193158 · PMC6520332, Results; Fig. 3D-F; Fig. 4B-C; Table 1

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