In isolated guinea-pig intestine 5-hydroxytryptamine increased the longitudinal muscle contractions in response to acetylcholine while the ganglionic action of nicotine was first facilitated and then blocked. Phenyldiguanide, veratrine, veratridine and protoveratrine, like 5-hydroxytryptamine,
Teleologically, pain is of paramount importance for survival and induces the organism to cope in an active way with aggressions from a basically hostile environment. While the activation of endogenous analgesic (opioid) systems typically occurs in conditions of surrender (pre-terminal conditions,
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