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Science 21 November 1958:
Vol. 128. no. 3334, p. 1284
DOI: 10.1126/science.128.3334.1284
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Cholinesterase in a Receptor

WERNER R. LOEWENSTEIN 1 and D. MOLINS 1

1 Department of Physiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York

Cholinesterase is found at the sites for mechanoelectric conversion of Pacinian corpuscles; its acetylcholinesplitting activity is of the same order of magnitude as that of the cholinesterase at neuromuscular junctions. The enzyme is not a typical acetylcholinesterase.

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