Selective ablation of striatal striosomes produces the deregulation of dopamine nigrostriatal pathway.

The striatum is a complex structure in which the organization in two compartments (striosomes and matrix) have been defined by their neurochemical profile and their input-output connections. The striosomes receive afferences from the limbic brain areas and send projections to the dopamine neurons of...

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Main Authors: Kirill Shumilov, M Ángeles Real, Alejandra Valderrama-Carvajal, Alicia Rivera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6114927?pdf=render