The Evolutionary Origins of Hormones, Neurotransmitters, and Other Extracellular Chemical Messengers: Implications for Mammalian Biology

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 306, Issue 9, 1982, Pages 523-527

  Bleich, Howard L ^a   Moore, Mary Jean ^a   Roth, Jesse ^b   Leroith, Derek ^b   Shiloach, Joseph ^b   Rosenzweig, James L ^b   Lesniak, Maxine A ^b   Havrankova, Jana ^b  

^a National Institutes of Health ^*

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; NALOXONE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PROPRANOLOL;

ABSTRACT REPORT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CELL; ENDOCRINE GLAND; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; EVOLUTION; MAMMAL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; CHILD; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; EVOLUTION; EXOCRINE GLANDS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GUINEA PIGS; HORMONES; HORMONES, ECTOPIC; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MAMMALS; NEOPLASMS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PEPTIDES; PHEROMONES; PHYLOGENY; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0020035481     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198203043060907     Document Type: Review

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