Mouse

SSp-ll (Primary somatosensory area, lower limb) projects to BLA (Basolateral amygdalar nucleus)

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

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A retrograde AAV (AAV2/Retro-hSyn-EGFP) injected into the BLA labelled cell bodies in S1, concentrated in the hind limb region and mainly in layer 5. RNAscope showed that roughly 90% of these retrogradely labelled cells contained Slc17a7 mRNA, indicating glutamatergic projection neurons.

DOI 10.1038/s41598-025-97164-3 · PubMed 40258918 · PMC12012082, Fig. 3A1-A4, 3B; Results section on circuit architecture

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