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Since Langley at the beginning of this century introduced the term ‘receptive substances’ when writing about the sites of action of both atropine and pilocarpine and also of curare and nicotine, the concept of receptors has often been used and has been familiar to pharmacologists for a long time. However, the nature of the receptors had remained unknown.
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Yoshida, H. (1984). Introduction: Receptors and receptor-mediated responses. In: Paton, W., Mitchell, J., Turner, P. (eds) IUPHAR 9th International Congress of Pharmacology London 1984. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17613-7_6
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