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COA (cortical amygdaloid nucleus) projects to ACB (Nucleus accumbens)

2 claims from 1 source: 2 found, 0 tested and absent, 0 ambiguous. Evidence: anterograde tracer, retrograde tracer. Strongest reported: strong.

The claims behind it

clm-rqtxaakrs4presentretrograde tracerproposed

A Fluoro-Gold injection confined to the accumbens core retrogradely labelled neurons in layer III of the posterolateral cortical amygdaloid nucleus.

DOI 10.1186/1471-2202-8-103 · PubMed 18047654 · PMC2216080, Fig. 4C,D

Made by an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5-5, extract@0.3.0); a second AI model (claude-opus-5-5) agrees.

clm-sencen6966presentanterograde tracerstrength: strongproposed

Layer II injections labelled some fibres in the caudal lateral/ventrolateral shell of the accumbens. A layer III injection (case 9905) labelled the accumbens core densely.

DOI 10.1186/1471-2202-8-103 · PubMed 18047654 · PMC2216080, Fig. 2E; Fig. 3D

Made by an AI model reading the paper (claude-opus-5-5, extract@0.3.0); a second AI model (claude-opus-5-5) disagrees. “The strong rating is supported only for the core after a single layer III injection, while the lateral shell got just some fibres, so the merged claim overstates strength.”