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Published in final edited form as: Clin Lab Med. 2010 Dec;30(4):847–864. doi: 10.1016/j.cll.2010.07.005

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

nAChRs in the striatum of the rodent central nervous system. (A) The mesostriatal dopaminergic pathway. (B) Subunit composition of the functional nAChRs expressed by dopaminergic nerve terminals (α6β2β3, α6α4β2β3, α4β2, α4α5β2). VTA, ventral tegmental area. (Reproduced from Gotti C, Clementi F. Neuronal nicotinic receptors: from structure to pathology. Prog Neurobiol 2004;74(6):363–96; with permission.)