Talk:Neuromelanin

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Proposal for clarification in the introduction
In the introduction, this phrase appears: "Neuromelanin is found in large quantities in catecholaminergic cells of the substantia nigra pars compacta and locus coeruleus," I propose changing it to read as follows: "Neuromelanin is found in large quantities in the dopaminergic cells of the substantia nigra pars compacta and the noradrenergic cells of the locus coeruleus," I propose making this change because upon reading it, my suspicion was that there were either various types of catecholaminergic neurons in each of these areas, or that there were neurons in these areas that released multiple different catecholamines. I suspected this not to be the case for the substantia nigra pars compacta, however, and so checked, and indeed, the SNc neurons are dopaminergic and the neurons of the locus coeruleus release noradrenaline, contrary to what I had inferred from the current wording in this article. Anditres (talk) 23:47, 9 February 2022 (UTC)