%0 Journal Article %T BMP/SMAD Pathway and the Development of Dopamine Substantia Nigra Neurons %A Hendrikus J. van Heesbeen %A Willemieke M. Kouwenhoven %J The Journal of Neurosience %D 2018 %R 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0821-18.2018 %X One of the major hallmarks of Parkinson's disease (PD) is the loss of dopamine release in the striatum resulting from progressive loss of mesodiencephalic dopamine-producing (mdDA) neurons. In PD, the most vulnerable neurons are in the ventral tier of the substantia nigra (SN); mdDA neurons in th %U http://www.jneurosci.org/content/38/28/6244