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THERE are various lines of evidence that the catecholamine dopamine (DA) is a neurotransmitter in both invertebrate and vertebrate nervous systems1–4. In support of this concept we report depolarising responses to DA caused by a conductance increase and detected by intracellular recording from a vertebrate somatic cell hybrid of neuronal origin.
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MYERS, P., LIVENGOOD, D. Dopamine depolarising response in a vertebrate neuronal somatic cell hybrid. Nature 255, 235–237 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/255235a0
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