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A HISTOCHEMICAL investigation, using the fluorescence method of Falck2, has shown that the uptake of exogenous catecholamines in reserpine-depleted, normally catecholamine-containing neurones is limited within the mouse brain to a rather small number of nerve cell groups4. The majority of these nerve cells are situated in regions which also show catecholamine-containing nerve cells in untreated animals. In this communication evidence is presented that norepinephrine can be taken up in numerous periglomerular cells in the olfactory bulb. No catecholamine-containing cells have so far been observed in the olfactory bulb in normal animals.
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LICHTENSTEIGER, W. Uptake of Norepinephrine in Periglomerular Cells of the Olfactory Bulb of the Mouse. Nature 210, 955–956 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/210955a0
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