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EXTRACTION FROM OX RETRACTOR PENIS OF AN INHIBITORY SUBSTANCE WHICH MIMICS ITS ATROPINE‐RESISTANT NEUROGENIC RELAXATION
Author(s) -
AMBACHE N.,
KILLICK S.W.,
ZAR M. ABOO
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
british journal of pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.432
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1476-5381
pISSN - 0007-1188
DOI - 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1975.tb07585.x
Subject(s) - retractor , atropine , inhibitory postsynaptic potential , penis , substance p , scopolamine , relaxation (psychology) , chemistry , neuroscience , medicine , pharmacology , anesthesia , anatomy , biology , surgery , neuropeptide , receptor
The inhibitory post‐ganglionic transmission in the retractor penis of the ox resembles that of the dog and is not cholinergic or adrenergic. Acid extracts of this tissue have yielded an unidentified, labile, inhibitory substance which mimics the effect of its inhibitory nerves.