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Non-synaptic chemical neurotransmission

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Images with apparently gemmulofugal polarity in the EPL of the olfactory bulb are the result of sectioning, along misleading planes, gemmulopetal synapses containing postsynaptic vesicles. Unless one accepts a bidirectional conduction for chemical synapses, the internal granule cells lack actual gemmulofugal synapses and the neurotransmitter contained in their vesicles must act at non-synaptic membranes.

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  1. Department d'Anatomie et de Biologie Cellulaire, Faculté de Médecine, Université Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

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Ramon-Moliner, E. Non-synaptic chemical neurotransmission. Experientia 33, 1342–1344 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01920171

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