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VTA (Ventral tegmental area) functionally connects to BLA (Basolateral amygdalar nucleus)

1 claim from 1 source: 1 found, 0 tested and absent, 0 ambiguous. Evidence: optogenetic circuit mapping.

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In slices from wildtype mice, light stimulation of ChR2-expressing VTA terminals raised the frequency of spontaneous EPSPs in BLA neurons. It did not change sEPSP amplitude or sIPSP frequency or amplitude. In Grp-/- mice, baseline sEPSP frequency was already high and light did not change it further.

DOI 10.1038/s41380-024-02843-8 · PubMed 39580604 · PMC12092189, Fig. 5C-J

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