Mouse
CTX (Cerebral cortex) functionally connects to LA glutamatergic principal neurons
2 claims from 2 sources: 2 found, 0 tested and absent, 0 ambiguous. Evidence: electrical stimulation.
The claims behind it
Placing a stimulating electrode in the external capsule of coronal amygdala slices evoked monosynaptic excitatory postsynaptic currents with stable latency and rise time in whole-cell recorded lateral amygdala principal neurons, recorded with GABA-A blockade (picrotoxin); current amplitude grew with stimulus strength and short-term plasticity could be probed with 20 Hz trains, with reduced maximal responses in Gdi1 mutants.
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0029763 · PubMed 22291894 · PMC3264564, Fig. 6A-C, Fig. 7, Fig. 8A-C; Results, cortico-LA sectionsMade by an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5, extract@0.3.0); a second AI model (claude-opus-5) agrees.
In acute coronal slices, stimulating cortical afferents in the external capsule evoked monosynaptic EPSCs with AMPA and NMDA components in patched LA principal neurons, in both juvenile and adult mice. The same stimulation also produced picrotoxin-sensitive feed-forward IPSCs. The paper tracked how paired-pulse ratio, refilling rate and maximal EPSC changed with age, and tested associative LTP at these synapses.
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0011399 · PubMed 20625482 · PMC2896423, Fig. 1A, Fig. 2, Fig. 3, Fig. 4; ResultsMade by an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5-5, extract@0.3.0); a second AI model (claude-opus-5-5) agrees.