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• n  a striped mass of white and grey matter located in front of the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere; consists of the caudate nucleus and the lenticular nucleus

• striatum
• striate body

News & Articles

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• Brain degeneration in Huntington's disease caused by amino acid deficiency
  ( Johns Hopkins Medicine ) Working with genetically engineered mice, Johns Hopkins neuroscientists report they have identified what they believe is the cause of the vast disintegration of a part of the brain called the corpus striatum in rodents and people with Huntington's disease: loss of the ability to make the amino acid cysteine. They also found that disease progression slowed in mice that ...
  March 26, 2014 - EurekAlert!