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ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2025

Discrete spatiotemporal encoding of striatal dopamine transmission.

Andrew G Yee, Yini Liao, Brian S Muntean, Christopher P Ford

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. The Cellular and Synaptic Actions of Dopamine During Behavior.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  4. The Synaptic Vesicle Priming Protein Munc13 Mediates Evoked Somatodendritic Dopamine Release.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  6. Spatiotemporally Distinct Dopamine Domains in the Hippocampus.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  7. Review
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  10. Ventral striatal astrocytes contribute to reinforcement learning.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Andrew G YeeDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0981-6634
Yini LiaoDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA.ORCID 0009-0008-8930-4823
Brian S MunteanDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9090-2929
Christopher P FordDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4175-2933

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
Role of KCTD proteins in striatal signalingR01NS129554 · NINDS · AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY · PI Brian S Muntean · 2023 to 2026
$1.5M
Illuminating the Mechanisms of Dopamine Neurotransmission in the StriatumF32DA051135 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI YEE, ANDREW GREGORY · 2020 to 2022
$212k
NIDA NIH HHS F32 DA051135NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA035821NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS095809NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS129554
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dopamine (DA) transmission critically regulates diverse, basal ganglia-dependent behaviors by activating distinct subtypes of G protein-coupled receptors. Spatially broad DA release has been extensively characterized, but how DA transmission affects striatal function at a subcellular scale remains poorly understood. Using 2P imaging and whole-cell electrophysiology, we defined the spatiotemporal properties of DA transmission onto striatal indirect pathway spiny projection neurons. Sparse activation of DA release sites evoked localized DA signals, producing spatially discrete, D2 receptor-mediated responses across dendrites. The spatiotemporal properties of DA receptor signaling differed between downstream intracellular pathways. We propose that membrane-delimited Gβγ signaling occurs in parallel to intracellular second messenger pathways, but on different spatial and temporal scales, providing a mechanism for precise decoding of DA signals by striatal neurons.

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Corpus StriatumDopamineReceptors, Dopamine D2Synaptic TransmissionAnimalsDendritesDopaminergic NeuronsMaleMiceNeuronsSignal TransductionDopamineReceptors, Dopamine D2

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PMID40638729
PMCPMC13331678

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