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VTA (Ventral tegmental area) projects to AMY (amygdala)

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

The claims behind it

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Retrograde CAV2-FLEx-Flp injected into the basolateral amygdala region labelled a subset of VTA dopamine neurons, which were then used as starter cells for input mapping, demonstrating a VTA dopamine projection to the amygdala.

DOI 10.7554/elife.93664 · PubMed 42138352 · PMC13179063, Fig. 7M–P; Methods (cTRIO, amygdala coordinates AP −1.43, ML 2.5, DV −4.5)

Made by an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5, extract@0.3.0); a second AI model (claude-opus-5) is unsure. “The paper only designates the retrograde target as "Amygdala", so restriction to the basolateral nucleus cannot be confirmed.”