Neuroimaging and Physiological Evidence for Involvement of Glutamatergic Transmission in Regulation of the Striatal Dopaminergic System

• Published in: The Journal of neuroscience Vol. 29; no. 6; pp. 1887 - 1896
• Main Authors: Tokunaga, Masaki, Seneca, Nicholas, Shin, Ryong-Moon, Maeda, Jun, Obayashi, Shigeru, Okauchi, Takashi, Nagai, Yuji, Zhang, Ming-Rong, Nakao, Ryuji, Ito, Hiroshi, Innis, Robert B, Halldin, Christer, Suzuki, Kazutoshi, Higuchi, Makoto, Suhara, Tetsuya
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Soc Neuroscience 11.02.2009; Society for Neuroscience
• Subjects: Animals; Corpus Striatum - diagnostic imaging; Corpus Striatum - physiology; Dopamine - physiology; Glutamic Acid - physiology; Macaca; Male; Positron-Emission Tomography - methods; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Synaptic Transmission - physiology

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