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The Role of Isoreceptors in the Neurohormonal Regulation of Bivalve Hearts

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Comparative Physiology of the Heart: Current Trends

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Abstract

The cardiac physiology and neurochemistry of bivalve molluscs have been under intensive investigation for the past 25 years or so. Hand in hand with these studies, a generalized outline of the pharmacology of four presumed neurotransmitter substances on the hearts of these animals has emerged. Most of this conceptual outline was developed in the laboratory of Professor John H. Welsh with the heart of the quahog Mercenaria (= Venus) mercenaria as the primary experimental object.

now (more near ourselves than we)

is a bird singing in a tree,

who never sings the same thing twice

and still that singing’s always his1

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Greenberg, M.J. (1969). The Role of Isoreceptors in the Neurohormonal Regulation of Bivalve Hearts. In: McCann, F.V. (eds) Comparative Physiology of the Heart: Current Trends. Experientia Supplementum. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6800-6_23

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