“…A 2A and D 2 receptors exert reciprocal antagonistic interactions that modulate the function of GABAergic enkephalinergic neurons (Ferré et al, 1993(Ferré et al, , 1997Agnati et al, 2003) and recent studies have demonstrated the ability of A 2A and D 2 receptors to heteromerize Kamiya et al, 2003;Ciruela et al, 2004;Woods and Ferré, 2005). A 2A and D 2 receptors are prototypical G s -and G i -coupled receptors, respectively, which play opposite effects on adenylyl-cyclase (Kull et al, 1999;Hillion et al, 2002;Lee et al, 2002). Stimulation of A 2A receptors can potentially stimulate striatal adenylyl-cyclase, with the consequent activation of the cAMP-PKA signaling pathway and the induction of the expression of different genes, such as c-fos and preproenkephalin (Agnati et al, 2003;Ferré et al, 2003Ferré et al, , 2004.…”