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I would like to thank Dr. E.W. Westhead for his helpful commentaries and to Mr. E. Maristani De Las Casas for his help with some initial experiments. This work was supported by a MICINN (BFU2010-15822), CONSOLIDER (CSD2008-00005) and the Canary Islands' Government C2008/01000239.
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Borges, R. The ATP or the natural history of neurotransmission. Purinergic Signalling 9, 5–6 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11302-012-9330-7
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