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This work was supported by the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission (Z181100001318002, Z181100001518004), FENG Foundation, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and the State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology at Peking University School of Life Sciences, NIH BRAIN Initiative (U01NS113358, U01NS120824). We thank the Li lab members for fruitful discussions.

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Zhuo, Y., Li, Y. New imaging methods for monitoring dopaminergic neurotransmission. Sci. China Life Sci. 65, 838–841 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-021-2041-4

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