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A Quarter Century of Brain Dopamine Research

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Dopaminergic Systems and their Regulation

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The discovery of dopamine’s occurrence in mammalian brain took place in the late fifties, between the years 1957 and 1959. Until then, dopamine stood in the shadow of the two other, at that time more prominent, catecholamines, noradrenaline and adrenaline. Even the name “dopamine” was, at the time of the amine’s discovery in the mammalian brain, still new and little known; it seems to have been proposed in about 1951 by Sir Henry Dale (see footnote, p.443, in Blaschko, 1952).

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Hornykiewicz, O. (1986). A Quarter Century of Brain Dopamine Research. In: Woodruff, G.N., Poat, J.A., Roberts, P.J. (eds) Dopaminergic Systems and their Regulation. Satellite Symposia of the IUPHAR 9th International Congress of Pharmacology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07431-0_1

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