striatal

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adjective

Pertaining to the corpus striatum.

OriginLatin striatum →
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Meanings

adjectivestriatal (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyPertaining to the corpus striatum.

    The availability of dopamine can lead to the translocation of dopamine D1 receptors from the cytosol to the plasma membrane ( 22 ), and down-regulation of striatal dopamine D2 receptors has been shown to occur after 7 days of motor training in developing rats ( 23 ).

    2009 February 6, Fiona McNab et al., “Changes in Cortical Dopamine D1 Receptor Binding Associated with Cognitive Training”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 800–802

Origin

  1. Latinstriatum
  2. Englishstriatal

From striate + -al, from Latin striatum, past participle of strio (“to groove”).

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APA

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