Arcachon and cholinergic transmission.

The cholinergic nature of transmission at the electromotor synapse of Torpedo marmorata was established at Arcachon in 1939 by Feldberg, Fessard and Nachmansohn (J. Physiol. (Lond.) 97 (1939/1940) 3P-4P) soon after transmission at the neuromuscular junction had been shown to be cholinergic. In 1964, after a quarter of a century of neglect, workers in Cambridge, then in Paris, Göttingen and elsewhere, began to use this system, 500-1000 times richer in cholinergic synapses than muscle, for intensive studies of cholinergic transmission at the cellular and molecular level.