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Four years ago, the Fifth International Symposium in Kiel featured a comprehensive overview on the state of neurosecretion in invertebrates (Scharrer and Weitzman, 1970). Therefore, in updating this report, we can confine ourselves to a few focal areas which spotlight current progress in this field. Most of these advances, conceptual as well as factual, are based largely on recent studies in insects and parallel those obtained in vertebrates. In both groups, the critical evaluation of the neurosecretory neuron, and its place within the spectrum of neurochemical mediation, continues to occupy center stage in our interest.
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Scharrer, B. (1974). New Trends in Invertebrate Neurosecretion. In: Knowles, F., Vollrath, L. (eds) Neurosecretion — The Final Neuroendocrine Pathway. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-12587-8_30
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