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From: Schizophrenia: do all roads lead to dopamine or is this where they start? Evidence from two epidemiologically informed developmental rodent models

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A summary of factors involved in the induction, specification and maturation of dopaminergic (DA) neurons affected by either developmental vitamin D (DVD)-deficiency or maternal immune activation (MIA) at various stages of embryonic brain development. (▴ Increase in expression; ▾ decrease in expression; ▪ expression normalized or unaltered). COMT, catechol-o-methyl transferase; DOPAC, 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid; FGF8, fibroblast growth factor 8; HVA, homovanilic acid; SHH, Sonic hedge hog; TH, tyrosine hydroxylase.

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