The Energy Cost of Action Potential Propagation in Dopamine Neurons: Clues to Susceptibility in Parkinson’s Disease
Dopamine neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc) are uniquely sensitive to degeneration in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and its models. Although a variety of molecular characteristics have been proposed to underlie this sensitivity, one possible contributory factor is their massive, unmyeli...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2013-03-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2013.00013/full |