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I have rashly volunteered to review a subject to which I have not contributed, my excuse being a long-standing interest in the mechanisms of transmitter release, and a more recent feeling that the most widely accepted version of the vesicle hypothesis, however attractive it may be, is not the only one worth considering.
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MacIntosh, F.C. (1978). The Present Status of the Vesicle Hypothesis. In: Jenden, D.J. (eds) Cholinergic Mechanisms and Psychopharmacology. Advances in Behavioral Biology, vol 24. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3096-7_22
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