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The basolateral amygdala decodes visceral pain and itch via distinct circuits and molecules.

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Authors: Qiuying Zhao1,2,3, Yong-Chang Li1,2,3, Jia-He Yao2, Rui-Xia Weng1, Qianqian Chen2, Xue Xu4, Shufen Hu2,3, Hong-Hong Zhang5, Ying Zhang4, Rui Li1, Guang-Yin Xu1,2,3,6
ORCID iDs: Ying Zhang, Rui Li, Guang-Yin Xu
  1. Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
  2. Clinical Research Center of Neurological Disease, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Diseases and Institute of Neuroscience, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
  3. Institute of Frontiers in Brain X, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
  4. Department of Painology, The People’s Hospital of Suzhou New District, Suzhou, China
  5. Department of Endocrinology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
  6. Biomedical Basic Research Center (BBRC) of Jiangsu, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
Institutions: Soochow University (China); Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University (China); First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University (China)
Journal: Nature communications, volume 17, issue 1, article 9253
Dates: received 21 May 2025; accepted 22 July 2026; published online 30 July 2026
Type: Research article · Language: English
License: CC BY-NC-ND
Identifiers: DOI 10.1038/s41467-026-76141-y · PMID 42669672 · PMCID PMC13527109 · OpenAlex W7171811922
Open access: gold, a free copy (OpenAlex)
Status: data only
Categories: mouse (organism), pain (population), systems (subfield)
Methods: Preprocessing, Statistics, Smoothing, state filtering, decompositions, Single-unit activity, calcium imaging
Keywords: Neural circuits, Pain
MeSH: Basolateral Nuclear Complex*, Pruritus*, Visceral Pain*, Animals, Male, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Neural Pathways, Neurons (* major topic)
Topic: Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (Physiology, Medicine), according to OpenAlex
Funding: National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) (32230041, 82470573, 82530041, 82401454)
Citations: not cited yet (Europe PMC); 66 references in the paper

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Zhao, Q., Li, Y.-C., Yao, J.-H., Weng, R.-X., Chen, Q., Xu, X., Hu, S., Zhang, H.-H., Zhang, Y., Li, R., & Xu, G.-Y. (2026). The basolateral amygdala decodes visceral pain and itch via distinct circuits and molecules. Nature communications, 17(1), 9253. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-76141-y

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@article{zhao2026basolateral,
author = {Zhao, Qiuying and Li, Yong-Chang and Yao, Jia-He and Weng, Rui-Xia and Chen, Qianqian and Xu, Xue and Hu, Shufen and Zhang, Hong-Hong and Zhang, Ying and Li, Rui and Xu, Guang-Yin},
title = {{The basolateral amygdala decodes visceral pain and itch via distinct circuits and molecules}},
journal = {Nature communications},
year = {2026},
month = jul,
volume = {17},
number = {1},
pages = {9253},
publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
issn = {2041-1723},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-026-76141-y},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-76141-y},
pmid = {42669672},
pmcid = {PMC13527109}
}

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AU - Li, Yong-Chang
AU - Yao, Jia-He
AU - Weng, Rui-Xia
AU - Chen, Qianqian
AU - Xu, Xue
AU - Hu, Shufen
AU - Zhang, Hong-Hong
AU - Zhang, Ying
AU - Li, Rui
AU - Xu, Guang-Yin
TI - The basolateral amygdala decodes visceral pain and itch via distinct circuits and molecules
T2 - Nature communications
J2 - Nat Commun
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/07/30
VL - 17
IS - 1
SP - 9253
SN - 2041-1723
PB - Nature Publishing Group
DO - 10.1038/s41467-026-76141-y
UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-76141-y
LA - en
ER -

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