## Abstract ## Background Brain dopamine has been the focus of numerous studies owing to its crucial role in motor function and in neurological and psychiatric disease processes. Whilst early work relied on postmortem data, functional imaging has allowed a more sophisticated approach to the quanti
Aging of the nigrostriatal system in the squirrel monkey
β Scribed by Alison L. McCormack; Donato A. Di Monte; Kioumars Delfani; Ian Irwin; Louis E. DeLanney; William J. Langston; Ann Marie Janson
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 256 KB
- Volume
- 471
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9967
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Copyright 0 1990 by the American Neurological Association 157 uptake sites, which are located presynaptically on nigrostriatal nerve endings [23} and can thus serve as a marker of dopamine nerve terminal density.
## Abstract Infant squirrel monkeys were reared with surrogates and tested at 4, 8, and 12 weeks of age on their preferences for odors and colors of the surrogates. Surrogates in the rearing color that contained an infant's own odor were preferred to clean ones of the same color. Surrogates in the