striatal

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

striatal (not comparable)

1. (biology) Pertaining to the corpus striatum.
   • 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:

     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 ).

• extrastriatal
• striatally

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