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pallidostriatal en · ADJ

Etymology

From pallido- + striatal.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Relating to the globus pallidus and the striatum
    • Retrograde labeling identifies ~17% of pallidostriatal neurons as PV +, at least a subset of which also innervate the STN and SNr. Optogenetic experiments in acute brain slices demonstrate that the PV + pallidostriatal axons make potent inhibitory synapses on low threshold spiking (LTS) and fast-spiking interneurons (FS) in the striatum, but rarely on spiny projection neurons (SPNs). 2016 February 24, “Globus Pallidus Externus Neurons Expressing parvalbumin Interconnect the Subthalamic Nucleus and Striatal Interneurons”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI: