The strikng similarity that Elliot (1904) discovered between the effects of adrenaline and sympathetic stimulation led him to suggest that the sympathetic nervous system might act by releasing small quantities of adrenaline from its post-ganglionic terminations. This was the first formulation of the idea of chemical transmission: two years later W. E. Dixon proposed that parasympathetic nerves similarly might liberate a chemical transmitter of their effects, and he suggested muscarine to be the substance involved (Dixon, 1906).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.109623 |
| Date | January 1954 |
| Creators | Birks, Richard. I. |
| Contributors | MacIntosh, F. (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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