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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 26.
Published in final edited form as: Neuron. 2008 Nov 26;60(4):543–554. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2008.11.005

Table 1.

Striatal cell types

cell type: abundance1: Rinput: Vrest2: axonal targets: key metabotropic
receptors:
references:
striatonigral MSN 49 % <100 MΩ −80 to −90
mV
GPi, SNr D1, M1, M4,
mGluR1/5
(Cepeda et al., 2008;
Hersch et al., 1994; Ince et al., 1997;
Kreitzer and Malenka, 2007)
striatopallidal MSN 49 % <100 MΩ −80 to −90
mV
GPe D2, A2A, M1,
mGluR1/5
(Cepeda et al., 2008; Hersch et al., 1994;
Kreitzer and Malenka, 2007;
Pollack et al., 1993)
FS interneuron 0.5 % <100 MΩ −80 mV MSNs D5 (Centonze et al., 2003b;
Kawaguchi, 1993)
LTS interneuron 1.5 % >200 MΩ −60 mV MSNs D1-like (Centonze et al., 2002;
Kawaguchi, 1993)
cholinergic interneuron 0.5 % >200 MΩ −60 mV MSNs, FS
interneurons
D2, D5, M2, M4 (Kawaguchi, 1993; Koos and Tepper, 2002;
Wilson et al., 1990;
Yan and Surmeier, 1996)
1

Abundance based on discussion in (Rymar et al., 2004), rounded to the nearest half-percent. Fifty percent of MSNs were assumed to be striatonigral (Huang et al., 1992). LTS interneurons were assumed to include both somatostatin- and calretinin-positive subtypes.

2

Experimental variability due to different extracellular potassium concentrations