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ELECTRICAL stimulation of presynaptic fibres to the so-called AH1 or type II2 myenteric neurones in guinea pig small intestine evokes a slow excitatory postsynaptic potential (e.p.s.p.) characterised by long-lasting depolarisation associated with increased membrane resistance and augmented excitability3. Two substances have been implicated as possible neurotrans-mitters for the slow e.p.s.p. Katayama and North reported that application of substance P to myenteric neurones mimicked the slow e.p.s.p.4, and J.D.W. and C.J.M. presented several lines of evidence for serotonin as the transmitter substance5,6. We now report that methysergide, a drug which abolishes both the slow e.p.s.p. and the action of exogenous serotonin5,6, does not affect the action of substance P on guinea pig myenteric neurones. The results suggest that substance P is unlikely to be the neuro-transmitter which mediates the slow e.p.s.p.
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GRAFE, P., MAYER, C. & WOOD, J. Evidence that substance P does not mediate slow synaptic excitation within the myenteric plexus. Nature 279, 720–721 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/279720a0
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