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Molecular Organization of Synapses for Chemical Transmission in the Central Nervous System

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According to the inspiring article by Gunther S. Stent (1968) “now that molecular genetics has become an academic discipline, one can expect that in the coming years students of the nervous system will form the avant-garde of biological research”. However, he makes the following warning: “it is possible that this study is bringing us to the limit of human understanding in that the brain may not be capable, in the last analysis, of providing an explanation for itself”. It is evident that the exploration of brain functions will need more and more of a multidisciplinary approach such as the one that is presented in this volume.

The original work has been supported by grants of Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientfficas y Técnicas, Argentina and National Institutes of Health, 2 R01 — NB-06953-04.

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    Alexander G. Karczmar (Professor of Pharmacology) (Professor of Pharmacology)

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de Robertis, E. (1972). Molecular Organization of Synapses for Chemical Transmission in the Central Nervous System. In: Karczmar, A.G., Eccles, J.C. (eds) Brain and Human Behavior. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95201-2_2

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