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Bouabid, S. et al. (2025) "Distinct spatially organized striatum-wide acetylcholine dynamics for the learning and extinction of Pavlovian associations"
  • Safa Bouabid1,2,
  • Liangzhu Zhang1,
  • Mai-Anh Vu1,2,
  • Kylie Tang1,
  • Benjamin M. Graham1,
  • Christian A. Noggle1,
  • Mark Howe1,2
  • 1Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA;
  • 2Aligning Science Across Parkinson's (ASAP) Collaborative Research Network, Chevy Chase, MD, 20815, USA
Cláudia C. Mendes
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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.n2bvjdx65vk5/v1
External link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60462-5
Collection Citation: Safa Bouabid, Liangzhu Zhang, Mai-Anh Vu, Kylie Tang, Benjamin M. Graham, Christian A. Noggle, Mark Howe 2025. Bouabid, S. et al. (2025) "Distinct spatially organized striatum-wide acetylcholine dynamics for the learning and extinction of Pavlovian associations". protocols.io https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.n2bvjdx65vk5/v1
Manuscript citation:
Bouabid, S., Zhang, L., T. Vu, MA. et al. Distinct spatially organized striatum-wide acetylcholine dynamics for the learning and extinction of Pavlovian associations. Nat Commun 16, 5169 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60462-5
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Keywords: Dopamine, Mouse, Behaviour, acetylcholine, photometry, multi-fiber array, viral vectors, Pavlovian, striatum, wide acetylcholine dynamics for the learning, extinction of pavlovian association, pavlovian association, wide acetylcholine dynamic, organized striatum
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Aligning Science Across Parkinson's (ASAP)
Grant ID: ASAP-020370
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