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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 9.
Published in final edited form as: Mov Disord. 2015 Jul 30;30(10):1306–1318. doi: 10.1002/mds.26340

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Cholinergic Interneurons in the Striatal Microcircuit. Top: Coronal schematic of the human basal ganglia. Striatal medium spiny neurons are highlighted in the caudate and putamen as blue and white circles. Bottom: Illustration of the distribution of striatal cholinergic receptors and sites of cholinergic regulation (arrows). Abbreviations: D2 (dopamine type 2-like receptor), D5 (dopamine type 5-like receptor), nAChR (nicotinic acetylcholine receptor), M1,2,3, or 4 (muscarinic acetylcholine receptor), ACh (acetylcholine), FSI (fast spiking interneuron) NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor), AMPA (α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor), GABA (γ-Aminobutyric acid).