Otto Loewi: cien años de la confirmación de la neurotransmisión química
ISSN: 1697-4298, 0034-0618
Year of publication: 2021
Volume: 87
Issue: 2
Pages: 135-139
Type: Article
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Abstract
In 1921, Otto Loewi published an experimental study that gave rise to the birth of the chemical theory of nerve transmission, according to which, the nerve current causes, at the end of nerve fibers, the release of a chemical substance called a neurotransmitter. For his discoveries related to the chemical neurotransmission of nerve impulses, Loewi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936.