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Preliminary observations of formaldehyde-induced fluorescence support the suggestion that monoamines such as noradrenaline, dopamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine are transmitter agents in the central nervous system of Onychophora.
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Acknowledgments. We wish to thank Dr M. Fillenz for valuable advice and for generously enabling this work to be carried out, and we are indebted to Dr V. van der Lande for material.
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Gardner, C.R., Robson, E.A. & Stanford, C. The presence of monoamines in the nervous system ofPeripatopsis (Onychophora). Experientia 34, 1577–1578 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02034683
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