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The indirect basal ganglia pathway in dopamine D(2) receptor-deficient mice.
Neuroscience - 1 Jan 2000
Murer M G, Dziewczapolski G, Salin P, Vila M, Tseng K Y, Ruberg M, Rubinstein M, Kelly M A, Grandy D K, Low M J, Hirsch E, Raisman-Vozari R, Gershanik O
Abstract excerpt
Recent pathophysiological models of basal ganglia function in Parkinson's disease predict that specific neurochemical changes in the indirect pathway would follow the lack of stimulation of D(2) dopamine receptors. Post mortem studies of the basal ganglia in genetically modified mice lacking functional copies of the D(2) dopamine receptor gene allowed us to test these predictions. When compared with their...
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