Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of phenolamine
Octopamine and tyramine are considered to be the invertebrate counterparts of the vertebrate adrenergic transmitters, and the two phenolamines are the only biogenic amines whose physiological significance is presumably restricted to invertebrates [ 5, 13, 41, 42 ].
2015 July 15, Gang Xu et al., “De novo assembly and characterization of central nervous system transcriptome reveals neurotransmitter signaling systems in the rice striped stem borer, Chilo suppressalis”, in BMC Genomics, volume 16, →DOI
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