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A SURVEY of animal tissues carried out in this Laboratory1 has shown that 3-hydroxytyramine is found more consistently and in higher concentration in the brain than in a number of other tissues. We have now studied the intracellular distribution of adrenaline, noradrenaline and 3-hydroxytyramine in the brain stem of the rabbit.
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WEIL-MALHERBE, H., BONE, A. Intracellular Distribution of Catecholamines in the Brain. Nature 180, 1050–1051 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/1801050a0
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