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Understanding the physiology of the brain is the ultimate goal of the neurosciences. A wide variety of tools are used In the attempt to delve into the biology of the CNS, included among them are such disparate tools as those used in anatomy, physiology, protein chemistry, and molecular genetics. On the face of it several of these methods give such different types of information that they would appear to be almost unrelated. Yet in the last few years it has become abundantly clear that the integration of these methods, at differing levels of discourse, has aided powerfully in our Increasing understanding of brain biochemistry, anatomy, and to some degree its functioning.
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Watson, S.J., Sherman, T.G., Schafer, M.K., Patel, P., Herman, J.P., Akil, H. (1988). Regulation of mRNA in Peptidergic Systems: Quantitative and In Situ Studies. In: Chrétien, M., McKerns, K.W. (eds) Molecular Biology of Brain and Endocrine Peptidergic Systems. Biochemical Endocrinology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8801-2_15
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