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Radioautography as a Tool for the Study of Putative Neurotransmitters in the Nervous System

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Principles of Neurotransmission

Part of the book series: Journal of Neural Transmission ((NEURAL SUPPL,volume 12))

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Abstract

The complete demonstration that the already known neurotransmitters in some synapses of the nervous system of invertebrates or in the peripheral nervous system of vertebrates play a similar role in the mammalian central synapses is still missing. Nevertheless the nature of the neurotransmitter present in some central pathways is well established: for instance GABA seems to be the neurotransmitter in the projections from the cerebellar cortex to the deep cerebellar nuclei and the vestibular nuclei (Obata and Takeda, 1969; Fonnum et al., 1970). However, there are only a few central specific synapses in which the exact nature of the neurotransmitter is completely demonstrated (i.e. the cholinergic nature [Eccles et al., 1954] of the synapses on Renshaw cells in the cat spinal cord).

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Sotelo, C. (1975). Radioautography as a Tool for the Study of Putative Neurotransmitters in the Nervous System. In: Stockinger, L. (eds) Principles of Neurotransmission. Journal of Neural Transmission, vol 12. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-8384-7_4

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