Identification of Optogenetically Activated Striatal Medium Spiny Neurons by Npas4 Expression

• Asim K. Bepari ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Asim K. Bepari, Hiromi Sano

  Affiliations Department of Morphological Neural Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan, Division of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

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• Hiromi Sano ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Asim K. Bepari, Hiromi Sano

  Affiliation Division of System Neurophysiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan

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• Nobuaki Tamamaki,

  Affiliation Department of Morphological Neural Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

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• Atsushi Nambu,

  Affiliations Division of System Neurophysiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan, Department of Physiological Sciences, Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai), Okazaki, Japan

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• Kenji F. Tanaka ,

  * E-mail: kftanaka@a8.keio.jp (KT); takebaya@med.niigata-u.ac.jp (HT)

  Affiliation Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hirohide Takebayashi

  * E-mail: kftanaka@a8.keio.jp (KT); takebaya@med.niigata-u.ac.jp (HT)

  Affiliations Division of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Saitama, Japan

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