The Chemical Languages of the Nervous System

摘要

Neurochemical transmission accounts for the majority of information transfer both in the cen-tral and peripheral nervous system. The initial findings centred around the experimental work of the two Nobel Prize winners Sir Henry H. Dale and Otto Loewi as well as Wilhelm Feldberg. Their historical findings opened the door to fur-ther investigations and extended the list of neu-rotransmitters to many others such as amino acids, peptides, purines and nitric oxide.