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. 2003 Jan;64(1):4-5.
doi: 10.4088/jcp.v64n0101.

Neurotransmission of cognition, part 1, Dopamine is a hitchhiker in frontal cortex: norepinephrine transporters regulate dopamine

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Neurotransmission of cognition, part 1, Dopamine is a hitchhiker in frontal cortex: norepinephrine transporters regulate dopamine

Stephen M Stahl. J Clin Psychiatry. 2003 Jan.
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Abstract

Since the frontal cortex has a low density of dopamine transporters, dopamine has to be inactivated there by hitching a ride on the norepinephrine transporter of neighboring norepinephrine neurons.

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