Dopamine in the rodent tail of striatum regulates behavioral variability in response to threatening novel objects.
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- Pai J; Department of Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA. Electronic address: julia.pai@wustl.edu.; Monosov IE; Department of Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA; Pain Center, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA; Department of Electrical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA. Electronic address: ilya.monosov@gmail.com.
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- Publisher: Cell Press Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 8809320 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1097-4199 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 08966273 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Neuron Subsets: MEDLINE
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- English
Mice display variability in fear-like responses to many external salient events, such as encountering unexpected novel objects, but the neural basis of this variability has been unclear. Akiti et al. (2022) demonstrate that dopamine in the tail of the rodent striatum predicts and regulates salience-related variability in individuals' behavioral responses to unexpected novel objects.
Competing Interests: Declaration of interests The authors declare no competing interests.
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