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Science 1 December 1978:
Vol. 202. no. 4371, pp. 977 - 979
DOI: 10.1126/science.309655
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Science, Vol 202, Issue 4371, 977-979
Copyright © 1978 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Serotonin shifts the phase of the circadian rhythm from the Aplysia eye

G Corrent, DJ McAdoo, and A Eskin

A putative neurotransmitter, serotonin, may be used to transmit temporal information in the eye of Aplysia, because it can shift the phase of the circadian rhythm of spontaneous optic nerve impulses from the eye and the eye contains a significant quantity of serotonin. Serotonin acts either directly on the cell, or cells, containing the circadian pacemaker or on cells electronically coupled to the pacemaker cells.


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