Which D4 do you have?

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D4, a dopamine receptor in the brain, comes in five polymorphic forms that may affect vulnerability to schizophrenia and drug addiction. Hubert H.M. Van Tol and colleagues analysed D4 and found three forms with two- , four- or sevenfold repeats of a 48-base-pair sequence in the putative third cytoplasmic loop region and two forms with one or five repeats of the same sequence. These findings may lead to better drug therapies for drug addiction and schizophrenia.

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Vesicle fiesta at the synapse

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Issues are presented concerning the working of the brain through the communication which exists between nerve cells. The chemical signals which control the communications are discussed.

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Purification of a pluripotent neural stem cell from the adult mouse brain

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Research is presented describing the study neural and non-neural stem cell production in the periventrical region of the adult mammalian central nervous system.

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