12103 IUPAC Gold Book - substantia nigra 10.1351/goldbook.12103 12103 current 1 Component of the basal ganglia involved in production of the neurotransmitterdopamine. dopamine https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11723 neurotransmitter https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11955 parkinsonism https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11998 PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 908 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12103/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12103/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12103/plain Citation: 'substantia nigra' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.12103 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-05-10T16:26:57+00:00