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THE nerve supply to many sympathetic effector organs contains cholinergic nerve fibres as well as adrenergic fibres. Recently, the hypothesis has been put forward that a cholinergic mechanism is involved in sympathetic transmission1,2. It has been suggested that acetylcholine released from cholinergic nerve endings liberates from a local tissue store sympathetic transmitter which in turn acts on the effector organ.
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GARDINER, J., THOMPSON, J. Lack of Evidence for a Cholinergic Mechanism in Sympathetic Transmission. Nature 191, 86 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/191086a0
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