The SNpc (IMAGE)

Rockefeller University

The SNpc

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Parkinson's disease is caused by the loss of dopamine-producing neurons in a midbrain region called the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc). Above, the SNpc dopamine neurons of a mouse brain appear in yellow.

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Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University/<em>Nature Neuroscience</em>

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