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A new collaborative study from the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre led by Prof Stephanie Cragg and Dr Bradley Roberts has revealed that GABA transporters on astrocytes, the brain's lesser known yet critically important cells, support dopamine release and are sites of early dysfunction in parkinsonism.

Striatal immunofluorescence signals for astrocyte marker S100β and neuronal marker NeuN
Striatal immunofluorescence signals for astrocyte marker S100β (magenta) and neuronal marker NeuN (yellow)

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