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The pars reticulata of the substantia nigra (SNR) is considered to be an intercalated station between striatal GABAergic and subthalamic glutamatergic fibres (Dray, 1979; Kitai and Kita, 1987).
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Heim, C., Jaspers, R., Block, F., Sontag, KH. (1991). Interaction of EAA- and GABA-Neurotransmission in the SNR of Cats: Open Field Behaviour. In: Bernardi, G., Carpenter, M.B., Di Chiara, G., Morelli, M., Stanzione, P. (eds) The Basal Ganglia III. Advances in Behavioral Biology, vol 39. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5871-8_50
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