Abstract
For some time past, certain pharmacological reagents which modify neuronal activity in the vertebrates, have been found to be reactive on invertebrate nervous systems (Eccles 1964; Kerkut 1967).
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Glaizner, B. (1968). Pharmacological Mapping of Cells in the Suboesophageal Ganglia of Helix Aspersa . In: Salánki, J. (eds) Neurobiology of Invertebrates. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8618-0_17
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