The discovery by Loewi (1921) that the slowing of the heart during vagal stimulation was due to the release at the nerve ending of a chemical substance, led to the study of transmission at other synapses. Although much success has been achieved at various periferal synapses, no chemical transmitter at the G.N.S. synapses has definitely been discovered or proven. The complexity of the G.N.S. is such that many supposedly similar experiments give conflicting results. One explanation for these conflicting results obtained when dealing with the G.N.S. would be that there is probably more than one synaptic transmitter, and that a substance may be excitatory at one synapse but inhibitory at another.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.109564 |
| Date | January 1953 |
| Creators | Pedley, Norah. F. |
| Contributors | Burns, B. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Biology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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