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Diversity and abundance: the basic properties of neuropeptide action in molluscs.
General and comparative endocrinology - 15 May 2011
Kiss Tibor
Abstract excerpt
Neuropeptides, the most diverse group of signaling molecules, are responsible for regulating a variety of cellular and behavioral processes in all vertebrate and invertebrate animals. The role played by peptide signals in information processing is fundamentally different from that of conventional neurotransmitters. Neuropeptides may act as neurotransmitters or neuromodulators and are released at either synaptic...
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