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THE well-known work of Prof. O. Loewi and of Sir Henry Dale and their collaborators has established the widespread function of acetylcholine as a chemical transmitter of nervous action. It has further been established that there exists in the animal organism a specific enzyme, choline-esterase, which effects the rapid destruction of this ester. Interest, therefore, now centres round the mechanism whereby acetylcholine is produced in the body.
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STEDMAN, E., STEDMAN, E. Mechanism of the Biological Synthesis of Acetylcholine. Nature 141, 39–40 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141039b0
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