Crescent shaped outer zone of the nucleus accumbens, defined by a combination of chemoarchitecture and afferent and efferent connections. The shell is distinguished from the more centrally located core through the notable reduction in staining for the calcium-binding protein calbindin D28K, which is dense in the core and virtually absent in the shell. [ NLXANAT:20090307 ]
Synonyms: shell region of nucleus accumbens shell of nucleus accumbens nucleus accumbens shell
Term information
- EFO:0002459
- BAMS:AcbSh
- DHBA:10341
- FMA:77387
- PBA:10094
- NLXANAT:20090307
- neuronames:1163
- BAMS:ACBs
efo_slim