Neostriatal mosaic

Gerfen C. R., Herkenham M., Thibault J. (1987). The neostriatal mosaic II. Patch- and matrix-directed mesostriatal dopaminergic and non-dopaminergic systems. J. Neurosci. 7, 3915-34. 

Gerfen, C.R. (1989) The neostriatal mosaic striatal patch-matrix organization is related to cortical lamination. Science 246 385-388. 

Calbindin-immunoreactive and calretinin-immunoreactive neurons project to the frontal cortex and striatum (Gerfen et al., 1987). In the rat, the efferents of calbindin-positive neurons take part in the neostriatal mosaic (see Section 5.1), since they project selectively to the matrix compartment of the striatum, whereas calbindin-negative neurons innervate preferentially the patch compartment (Gerfen et al., 1985, 1987). 

Gerfen CR, Baimbridge KG, Miller JJ (1985) The neostriatal mosaic compartmental distribution of calciumbinding protein and parvalbumin in the basal ganglia of the rat and moneky. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 32 8780 8784. 

Gerfen CR (1992) The neostriatal mosaic multiple levels of compartmental organization in the basal ganglia. 

Gerfen CR (1984) The neostriatal mosaic compartmentalization of corticostriatal input and striatonigral output systems. Nature, 311, 461 64. 

Gerfen CR (1985) The neostriatal mosaic. I. Compartmental organization of projections from the striatum to the substantia nigra in the rat. J. Comp. Neurol, 236, 454-476. 

Gerfen CR, Baimbridge KG, Thibault J (1987) The neostriatal mosaic III. Biochemical and developmental dissociation of patch-matrix mesostriatal systems. J. Neurosci., 7, 3935-3944. 

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