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SUBMITTER: Fieblinger T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4431763 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fieblinger Tim T Graves Steven M SM Sebel Luke E LE Alcacer Cristina C Plotkin Joshua L JL Gertler Tracy S TS Chan C Savio CS Heiman Myriam M Greengard Paul P Cenci M Angela MA Surmeier D James DJ
Nature communications 20141031
The striatum is widely viewed as the fulcrum of pathophysiology in Parkinson's disease (PD) and L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia (LID). In these disease states, the balance in activity of striatal direct pathway spiny projection neurons (dSPNs) and indirect pathway spiny projection neurons (iSPNs) is disrupted, leading to aberrant action selection. However, it is unclear whether countervailing mechanisms are engaged in these states. Here we report that iSPN intrinsic excitability and excitatory cortico ...[more]