Abstract
Against the strong tendency that has always existed among physiologists to reduce the different categories of junctional processes to one single type of transmission mechanism, one may oppose the wide diversity of synaptic properties, revealed by the bulk of modem research on the subject. A good illustration of such diversity can be found in the narrow field of electric effectors if we consider the seven different structural types they offer; for, in spite of their being devoted to the same final task, that of delivering electric shocks, they do not seem to make use of a single mechanism for their peripheral nervous control. Furthermore, as we shall see, they differ in many ways from the neuromuscular model, with which it had long been supposed they were more or less similar.
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