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Serotonin

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Control Mechanisms in the Nervous System

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The literature on the distribution and function of serotonin in brain has grown enormously in the past 15 years. The authors do not consider it possible within limited space to document adequately all the evidence, hence they elect to give certain general references from which the reader can, with relative ease, get to the source. For those interested in tables of critical values, the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology(11) will suffice.

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  1. Research Division of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

    Irvine H. Page & Arvid Carlsson

  2. Department of Pharmacology, University of Göteborg, Sweden

    Irvine H. Page & Arvid Carlsson

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  1. New York State Research Institute for Neurochemistry and Drug Addiction, Ward’s Island, New York, New York, USA

    Abel Lajtha

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Page, I.H., Carlsson, A. (1970). Serotonin. In: Lajtha, A. (eds) Control Mechanisms in the Nervous System. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7163-6_11

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