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A DISCUSSION on the transmission of effects from the ends of nerve fibres occupied an afternoon session of Section I (Physiology) of the British Association on September 9. Sir Henry Dale introduced the discussion by saying that we may agree on the assumption that the liberation of one or another chemical substance with a specific stimulating action is the means by which, in vertebrates, nerve impulses are transmitted from the endings of all efferent fibres of the peripheral nervous system, whether pre- or post-ganglionic fibres of the involuntary nerves, or motor fibres of the voluntary nerves. But there remains a Wealth of problems still open to discussion concerning details of such a process.
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Transmission of Effects from the Endings of Nerve Fibres. Nature 162, 558–560 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162558a0
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