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- W68470042 abstract "This chapter presents considerable evidence for morphogenetic functions of neurotransmitters during embryonic development, a role that may derive from their appearance early in evolution, still evidenced today by their presence in primitive organisms. Use of the term “morphogen” in the context of neurotransmitters acting as regulators of morphogenetic processes gives it a more general meaning. Turing has originally defined it in a rather broad sense, even including hormones as possible morphogens. Neurotransmitter substances, including the catecholamines, serotonin acetylcholine and γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA), are found in a variety of primitive organisms and early invertebrate embryos in which no nervous system is present. In such cases, these substances appear to act as both intra- and intercellular signals involved in the control of cell proliferation, ciliary activity, motility, cell shape changes and morphogenetic cell movements. In the adult nervous system, neurotransmitters are discrete intercellular signalling devices that mediate communication between cells in complex neural circuitries. However, they may have evolved to this specialized role from more general humoral functions in primitive organisms where they were used as both intra- and intercellular signalling devices." @default.
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- W68470042 title "Neurotransmitters as morphogens" @default.
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