Tyramine Functions Independently of Octopamine in the Caenorhabditis elegans Nervous System

@article{Alkema2005TyramineFI,
  title={Tyramine Functions Independently of Octopamine in the Caenorhabditis elegans Nervous System},
  author={Mark J Alkema and Melissa Hunter-Ensor and Niels Ringstad and H. Robert Horvitz},
  journal={Neuron},
  year={2005},
  volume={46},
  pages={247-260}
}
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