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The importance of peptides as intercellular messengers is discussed. The view is put forward that peptides evolved early in evolution as chemical messengers and that they have come to exert a wide range of actions. Using as an example the FMRFamide (Phe-Met-Arg-Phe-NH2) related peptide family of molluscs, the wide range of peptide actions on membrane currents is discussed and considered in relation to co-localization of peptides with low molecular weight (or “classical”) intercellular messengers.
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Cottrell, G.A. (1993). The wide range of actions of the FMRFamide-related peptides and the biological importance of peptidergic messengers. In: Pichon, Y. (eds) Comparative Molecular Neurobiology. EXS, vol 63. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7265-2_15
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