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Previous reports based on spectrofluorometric, microspectrofluorometric, chromatographic and radiometric methods have established that the following monoamines are present in the snail CNS: dopamine, serotonin, histamine, octopamine, tyramine and tryptamine (see Gerschenfeld 1973; Leake and Walker 1980; Robertson and Juorio 1976). There are plenty of physiological and pharmacological data supporting the opinion that dopamine, serotonin, histamine and octopamine have functional roles in the gastropod CNS (see Gerschenfeld 1973; Leake and Walker 1980; Osborne 1978; Weinreich 1977; Saavedra et al. 1974; Robertson and Juorio 1976).
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Osborne, N.N. (1985). Tryptamine, Tyramine and Histamine Immunoreactivities in Specific Neurones of the Gastropod CNS. In: Boulton, A.A., Maitre, L., Bieck, P.R., Riederer, P. (eds) Neuropsychopharmacology of the Trace Amines. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5010-4_10
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