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IT has been suggested that the brain of the aestivating lung-fish might contain an anti-metabolic agent1, perhaps not unlike the mono-amines secreted in the pons and medulla of cats as active agents in the control of sleep2.
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SWAN, H., JENKINS, D. & KNOX, K. Anti-metabolic Extract from the Brain of Protopterus aethiopicus. Nature 217, 671 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217671a0
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