Dopamine Receptors in a Songbird Brain
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Lubica Kubikova; Kazuhiro Wada; Erich D. Jarvis
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Dopamine is a key neuromodulatory transmitter in the brain. It acts through dopamine receptors to affect changes in neural activity, gene expression, and behavior. In songbirds, dopamine is released into the striatal song nucleus area X, and the levels depend on social contexts of undir