Absolutely, thanks Kei! Though - for Parkison's - we're going to need to deal with neurons in the substantia nigra and the locus coeruleus. For instance, see: Relationship among alpha-synuclein accumulation, dopamine synthesis, and neurodegeneration in Parkinson disease substantia nigra. Mori F, Nishie M, Kakita A, Yoshimoto M, Takahashi H, Wakabayashi K One of the problems with these areas of the brain is the cell types are much less clearly characteristic than cerebellar Purkinje neurons. They aren't completely without distinctive character and some details can be given, as they are in the above research article: :neuron :contains :pigment :neuron :contains :tyrosine_hydroxylase It's just neither of these are properties commonly used to classify neuronal type, though the latter is a property of: :neuron :is_a :dopaminergic_neuron but as Gordon Shepherd and Michele Migliore have pointed out, this tradition of typing neurons by transmitter is very problematic: Oops - time to call in. Cheers, Bill On Sep 5, 2006, at 10:42 AM, Kashyap, Vipul wrote:
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