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Phenotype of striatofugal medium spiny neurons in parkinsonian and dyskinetic nonhuman primates: a call for a reappraisal of the functional organization of the basal ganglia.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 23 Aug 2006
Nadjar Agnes, Brotchie Jonathan M, Guigoni Celine, Li Qin, Zhou Shao-Bo, Wang Gui-Jie, Ravenscroft Paula, Georges François, Crossman Alan R, Bezard Erwan
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The classic view of anatomofunctional organization of the basal ganglia is that striatopallidal neurons of the "indirect" pathway express D2 dopamine receptors and corelease enkephalin with GABA, whereas striatopallidal neurons of the "direct" pathway bear D1 dopamine receptors and corelease dyno...
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