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Andrew Villa

California State Polytechnic University

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Nmur1 and Cckar fail to support functional genetic access in adult dopamine neurons and challenge GPCR atlas assignments

Moueez Shah, Renqi Wu, Qiao Ye, Raluca Bugescu, Andrew Villa, Justine T. Wong, Fernando Garcia, Zhiqun Tan, Xiangmin Xu, Gina M. Leinninger, Andrew D. Steele

The paper shows that proposed GPCR markers for adult dopamine neurons, like Nmur1 and Cckar, lack functional expression and challenge existing atlas assignments.

bioRxiv · May 14, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience