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ReviewTrends in neurosciences2025

Establishing functionally segregated dopaminergic circuits.

Akiko Terauchi, Erin M Johnson-Venkatesh, Hisashi Umemori

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Review in Trends in neurosciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Akiko TerauchiDepartment of Neurology, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Erin M Johnson-VenkateshDepartment of Neurology, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Hisashi UmemoriDepartment of Neurology, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: hisashi.umemori@childrens.harvard.edu.

Funding

Molecular Codes for the Establishment of Functionally Segregated Dopaminergic CircuitsR01MH125162 · NIMH · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI UMEMORI, HISASHI, WATABE-UCHIDA, MITSUKO · 2021 to 2025
$4.1M
Finding the projection-specific dopaminergic synaptic organizersR01DA042744 · NIDA · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Hisashi Umemori, Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida · 2017 to 2026
$3.9M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA042744NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH125162
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite accounting for only ~0.001% of all neurons in the human brain, midbrain dopaminergic neurons control numerous behaviors and are associated with many neuropsychiatric disorders that affect our physical and mental health. Dopaminergic neurons form various anatomically and functionally segregated pathways. Having such defined dopaminergic pathways is key to controlling varied sets of brain functions; therefore, segregated dopaminergic pathways must be properly and uniquely formed during development. How are these segregated pathways established? The three key developmental stages that dopaminergic neurons go through are cell migration, axon guidance, and synapse formation. In each stage, dopaminergic neurons and their processes receive unique molecular cues to guide the formation of specific dopaminergic pathways. Here, we outline the molecular mechanisms underlying the establishment of segregated dopaminergic pathways during each developmental stage in the mouse brain, focusing on the formation of the three major dopaminergic pathways: the nigrostriatal, mesolimbic, and mesocortical pathways. We propose that multiple stage-specific molecular gradients cooperate to establish functionally segregated dopaminergic circuits.

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BrainDopamineDopaminergic NeuronsNeural PathwaysAnimalsHumansDopamineaxon guidancecell migrationmesocortical pathwaymesolimbic pathwaynigrostriatal pathwaysynapse formation

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PMID39863490
PMCPMC11951916

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