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Heteromolecular Plasticity in Striatal Astrocytes

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This Research Highlight was  supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31430032, 81329003, 81671356, 31801007 and 81881240049), the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT_16R37), the Science and Technology Program of Guangdong Province, China (2018B030334001), Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province, China (2020A1515011310), Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou Municipality (201707020027), Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence Fund (2019019).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Key Laboratory of Mental Health of the Ministry of Education, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Psychiatric Disorders, Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, China

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Chen, YH., Gao, TM. Heteromolecular Plasticity in Striatal Astrocytes. Neurosci. Bull. 37, 1264–1266 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-021-00703-x

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