Rat

PL (Prelimbic area) projects to CEA (central amygdaloid nucleus)

2 claims from 2 sources: 0 found, 2 tested and absent, 0 ambiguous. Evidence: anterograde tracer.

The claims behind it

clm-h4hhee0bntabsentanterograde tracerproposed

Labelled axons from the dorsal mPFC passed just dorsal to the central amygdala but essentially no terminals were observed within the CeA itself.

DOI 10.1523/eneuro.0132-19.2019 · PubMed 31548367 · PMC7070451, Results, first section (Fig. 1C1)

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

clm-yzpmbz1mp8absentanterograde tracerproposed

In the same animals injected with the CaMKIIa-ChR2-mCherry vector in dmPFC, no mCherry labelling was detected in the central nucleus of the amygdala, indicating that dmPFC excitatory neurons do not project there.

DOI 10.3389/fnins.2024.1331864 · PubMed 38327845 · PMC10847313, Fig. 1D; Results, first section

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