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in the brain, and it is also implicated in parkinson’s dis-ease (pD). in the central nervous system, midbrain dopaminergic neurons are the major source of dopamine, and it is these neurons that are lost in pD. for example, in pD, more than 60% of the pigmented, dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta are lost.