Tritiated leucine and proline injected into the amygdaloid complex was found to label a voluminous amygdalostriatal fiber system which is distributed to all parts of the striatum except an antero-dorsolateral striatal sector. The connection is established by way of the longitudinal association bundle as well as the stria terminalis, and includes a modest (10--15%), symmetrically distributed contralateral component conveyed by the anterior commissure. Both autoradiographic findings and subsequent observations in retrograde cell-labelling (horseradish peroxidase) material indicate that the amygdalostriatal projection originates mainly from the nucleus basalis lateralis amygdalae, in much lesser volume from the nucleus basalis medialis, and minimally from the nucleus lateralis amygdalae; no other contributing amygdaloid cell group could be identified.
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Kelley, A. E., Domesick, V. B., & Nauta, W. J. H. (1982). The Amygdalostriatal Projection in the Rat—An Anatomical Study by Anterograde and Retrograde Tracing Methods. In Neuroanatomy (pp. 495–509). Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7920-1_24
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