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Volatile Amines in Brain

Nature volume 185, pages 530–532 (1960)Cite this article

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WE have reported previously the isolation and identification of the volatile amine 2-dimethyl-aminoethanol in the brain of man and pig and in other biological material1,2. Bremer and Greenberg's3 report on its presence in rat-liver phospholipids has substantiated our findings. During our investigation several volatile amines—besides the previously identified volatile bases ammonia4 and 2-amino-ethanol5—were isolated from brain tissue and we became interested in analysing the brain for other normally occurring volatile amines.

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  1. CONRAD G. HONEGGER: Visiting assistant professor on leave of absence from Wissen-schaftliches Laboratorium der Psychiatrischen Universitaetsklinik und der Neurologischen Universitaets-Poliklinik Basel, Mittlere Strasse 91, Basel, Switzerland.

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  1. Department of Pharmacology, Division of Basic Health Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, 22, Georgia

    CONRAD G. HONEGGER & RUTH HONEGGER

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HONEGGER, C., HONEGGER, R. Volatile Amines in Brain. Nature 185, 530–532 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185530b0

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