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Why is there more than one neurotransmitter?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Leigh M. Van Valen
Affiliation:
Biology Department, University of Chicago, Chicago, III. 60637

Abstract

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Continuing Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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