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5-Hydroxytryptamine Receptors and Synaptic Transmission in Molluscan Neurones

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Welsh and Moorhead1 found large amounts of 5-hydroxytryptamie (5-HT) in the nervous system of different classes of molluscs and postulated its possible role as a transmitter. More recently the presence of 5-HT in land-snail nervous tissue was confirmed by Kerkut and Cottrell2 and by Cardot and Ripplinger3. The interest of this finding was stressed by Ersparmer4, who pointed out that “a thorough study of the 5-HT in the nervous tissue of Molluscs may offer a key to a better understanding of the function of the amine in the brain of Vertebrates”.

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  1. H. M. GERSCHENFELD: Established Investigator, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina.

  2. E. STEFANI: Fellow of the Consejo Nacional de Investígaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina.

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GERSCHENFELD, H., STEFANI, E. 5-Hydroxytryptamine Receptors and Synaptic Transmission in Molluscan Neurones. Nature 205, 1216–1218 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2051216a0

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