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Science 26 July 1974:
Vol. 185. no. 4148, pp. 364 - 365
DOI: 10.1126/science.185.4148.364
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Octopamine: Presence in Single Neurons of Aplysia Suggests Neurotransmitter Function

Juan M. Saavedra 1, Michael J. Brownstein 1, David O. Carpenter 2, and Julius Axelrod 3

1 Laboratory of Clinical Science, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20014
2 Neurobiology Department. Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20014
3 Laboratory of Clinical Science, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda. Marvland 20014

Octopamine has been identified and measured in individual neurons from Aplysia californica. Neither dopamine nor norepinephrine was detected in these cells. Thus, in Aplysia there may be separate populations of catecholaminergic and monophenolaminergic cells. Octopamine may have functions of its own in the central nervous system of mollusks.


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