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New Aspects on Modulation Of Sympathetic Neurotransmission: by Change of Probability of Secretion of Single Mixed Quanta From Two Classes of Nerve Varicosities

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Modulation of Synaptic Transmission and Plasticity in Nervous Systems

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Exciting new findings in many areas force us to change radically our views on sympathetic neurotransmission. The purpose of this short review is to suggest some features of an emerging new working model, and to discuss in that context the basic secretory characteristics of individual nerve varicosities, and the transmission of impulses in some sympathetic neuro-effector junctions, and its pre- and postjunctional modulation.

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    Lennart Stjärne & Etsuro Tanaka

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Stjärne, L., Tanaka, E., Århem, P. (1988). New Aspects on Modulation Of Sympathetic Neurotransmission: by Change of Probability of Secretion of Single Mixed Quanta From Two Classes of Nerve Varicosities. In: Hertting, G., Spatz, HC. (eds) Modulation of Synaptic Transmission and Plasticity in Nervous Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73160-0_10

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