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Acetylcholine

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Neurotransmitter Actions in the Vertebrate Nervous System

Abstract

Although acetylcholine (ACh) was first isolated from the brain more than 50 years ago by Chang and Gaddum (see Dale, 1938) and the experiments of Curtis and Eccles (1958) identified the Renshaw cell as cholinoceptive more than 25 years ago, since that time no other synapse in the central nervous system (CNS) has been conclusively shown to be cholinergic. Indeed, the often repeated finding that the action of iontophoretic ACh on central neurons is slow in onset and highly variable in its action has led a number of workers to suggest that ACh does not function as a conventional synaptic transmitter in the brain and instead plays what has come to be known as a neuromodulatory role; i.e., it operates on single neurons by increasing or decreasing the potency of the more conventional synaptic inputs (see Bloom, 1980).

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