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Abstract —The specific radioactivity of acetylcholine liberated from the surface of the rabbit occipital cortex has been compared with that of the underlying cortical synaptosomal and vesicular acetylcholine at varying times after the administration of [N‐Me‐ 3 H]choline. Choline was administered by diffusion from solutions placed in cups formed by Perspex cylinders applied to the surface of the cortex. Acetylcholine was collected by diffusion into these cups. The specific radioactivity of the acetylcholine declined progressively. The effect of stimulation of afferent cholinergic pathways was to cause a fall in the specific radioactivity of the released acetylcholine. However this was always higher than that of the synaptosomal or vesicular acetylcholine as represented by fractions P 2 and D of the authors’fractionation scheme. It is concluded that acetylcholine released from the cortex must come from a store or stores more recently synthesized than the endogenous acetylcholine of these subcellular fractions.
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