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Dopaminergic Modulation of Glutamatergic Signaling in Striatal Medium Spiny Neurons

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Dopamine (DA) controls a wide variety of striatal functions, including action selection and associative learning. This is achieved by modulating cortical and thalamic glutamatergic synapses formed on principal medium spiny neurons (MSNs) and the way in which these signals are processed. Accumulating evidence suggests that D1 receptor signaling enhances dendritic excitability and glutamatergic signaling in striatonigral MSNs, whereas D2 receptor signaling exerts the opposite effect in striatopallidal MSNs. The functional antagonism between these two major striatal DA receptors extends to the regulation of synaptic plasticity. Using brain slices from DA receptor transgenic mice, recent studies have uncovered important differences between MSNs that shape long-term alterations in glutamatergic signaling with experience. These results are consistent with network models of striatal function, suggesting that DA acts in a push–pull fashion in action selection. Work in models of Parkinson’s disease has shown this bidirectionality is lost following DA depletion, pointing to the mechanisms underlying network dysfunction in this disease as well as in others with strong DA determinants like drug abuse.

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  • Long-term potentiation
  • Long-term depression
  • Spike-timing-dependent plasticity
  • Basal ganglia
  • Voltage-dependent channels
  • Dendrites
  • Parkinson’s disease models

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Shen, W., Surmeier, D.J. (2010). Dopaminergic Modulation of Glutamatergic Signaling in Striatal Medium Spiny Neurons. In: Neve, K. (eds) The Dopamine Receptors. The Receptors. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-333-6_7

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