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The 29 amino acid peptide galanin (GAL) which was originally isolated from the small intestine of pigs (Tatemoto et al., 1983) was found to be widely distributed in the central nervous system (CNS) of several species including man (Ch’ng et al., 1985, Gentleman et al., 1989, Kowall and Beal, 1989, Melander et al., 1986a, Rokaeus et al., 1984, Skofitsch and Jacobowitz, 1985a, 1986, Walker et al., 1989, Wolfbauer and Skofitsch, 1989, Wurzinger and Skofitsch, 1989) and to coexist with several classical neurotransmitters, monoamines and neuropeptides (for review see Skofitsch and Jacobowitz, 1990).
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Skofitsch, G., Jacobowitz, D.M. (1991). Distribution of galanin binding sites in the central nervous system. In: Hökfelt, T., Bartfai, T., Jacobowitz, D., Ottoson, D. (eds) Galanin. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12664-4_7
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