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Glial Cell and Perineuronal Net Interactions in the Dorsal Striatum of Aged Mice
Zachary A Colon1,2, Alejandro Gamboa1,2, Scott Litwiler1,2, Kathleen A Maguire-Zeiss1,2,3,*
- 1Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
- 2Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
- 3Department of Biology, Georgetown College of Arts & Sciences, Washington, DC, USA
Corresponding Author
Kathleen Anne Maguire-Zeiss, km445@georgetown.edu
Received Date: February 23, 2026
Accepted Date: April 06, 2026
Colon ZA, Gamboa A, Litwiler S, Maguire-Zeiss KA. Glial Cell and Perineuronal Net Interactions in the Dorsal Striatum of Aged Mice. J Exp Neurol. 2026;7(1):55–62.
Copyright: © 2026 Colon ZA, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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