Substantia nigra transplants into denervated striatum of the rat: Ultrastructure of graft and host interconnections

A number of recent experiments suggest that grafted dopaminergic neurons provide functional input to a host caudoputamen which previously had been deprived of its dopaminergic input. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactive processes which originate in the graft participate in morphologically identifiable synapses in the host neuropil.

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