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ArticleCell reports2018

Dopamine Cells Differentially Regulate Striatal Cholinergic Transmission across Regions through Corelease of Dopamine and Glutamate.

Yuan Cai, Christopher P Ford

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Article in Cell reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.

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  5. Striatal cholinergic interneurons exhibit compartment-specific anatomical and functional organization in the mouse.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  13. Dopamine-Glutamate and Dopamine-GABA Co-release.Advances in neurobiology · 2025
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  19. A mismatch between striatal cholinergic pauses and dopaminergic reward prediction errors.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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2 authors.

Yuan CaiDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
Christopher P FordDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. Electronic address: christopher.ford@ucdenver.edu.

Funding

Encoding Dopamine Signals in the Mesolimbic SystemR01DA035821 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI FORD, CHRISTOPHER PETER · 2013 to 2023
$3.5M
Regulation of striatal acetylcholine transmission by cholinergic interneuronsR01NS095809 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI FORD, CHRISTOPHER PETER · 2016 to 2024
$3.4M
Validating and extending optical tools for extended neural silencingUF1NS107710 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI FORD, CHRISTOPHER PETER, KENNEDY, MATTHEW J · 2018 to 2018
$2.0M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA035821NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS095809NINDS NIH HHS UF1 NS107710
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The balance of dopamine and acetylcholine in the dorsal striatum is critical for motor and learning functions. Midbrain dopamine cells and local cholinergic interneurons (ChIs) densely innervate the striatum and have strong reciprocal actions on each other. Although dopamine inputs regulate ChIs, the functional consequences of dopamine neuron activity across dorsal striatal regions is poorly understood. Here, we find that midbrain dopamine neurons drive pauses in the firing of dorsomedial ChIs but robust bursts in dorsolateral ChIs. Pauses are mediated by dopamine D2 receptors, while bursts are driven by glutamate corelease and activation of a mGluR-mediated excitatory conductance. We find the frequency of muscarinic cholinergic transmission to medium spiny neurons is greater in the dorsomedial striatum. This regional variation in transmission is moderated by the different actions of dopamine and glutamate corelease. These results delineate a mechanism by which dopamine inputs maintain consistent levels of cholinergic activity across the dorsal striatum.

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AcetylcholineAction PotentialsAnimalsCholinergic NeuronsCorpus StriatumDopamineDopaminergic NeuronsGlutamic AcidInterneuronsMesencephalonMice, Inbred C57BLReceptors, Dopamine D2Receptors, Metabotropic GlutamateSynapsesSynaptic TransmissionAcetylcholineDopamineGlutamic AcidReceptors, Dopamine D2Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamateaccumensbasal gangliadopamineGPCRmetabotrophicmGluRParkinson’s diseasestriatum

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PMID30540946
PMCPMC6658127

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