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I. An adventurous and curious boy
II. A New world
III. Return to birthplace
IV. The enteric plexuses in the 1960s
V. Histochemistry of biogenic amines and the gut
VI. First encounter with organ bath pharmacology
VII. A political student and life in the 1960s
VIII. Geoff Burnstock and the Australian adventure
IX. Overcoming the tyranny of language in Melbourne in the ‘70s
X. Cutting ties with Torino
XI. European interlude via South America seeking a research career
XII. Settling in Australia: from Melbourne to Adelaide
XIII. Exploring the neural bases of intestinal behaviour
XIV. On the function of the enteric inhibitory motor neurons
XV. In search for more unknown transmitters in the gut: 5-hydroxytryptamine
XVI. The environment at Flinders in mid 1970s
XVII. On the conceptual distinction between the pharmacology and the physiology of neurotransmitters
XVIII. Whole-mount methods for visualizing neuropeptides in the intestine
XIX. Substance P as an enteric neurotransmitter
XX. The golden decade of the 1980s: unravelling the enteric circuits
XXI. Fast (spark) and slow (soup) synaptic transmission in the nervous system
XXII. VIP and the NANC inhibitory nerves
XXIII. Visualising cholinergic neurons in the enteric nervous system (ENS)
XXIV. Emergence of the concept of chemical coding of neurons
XXV. Multidisciplinary approach to unravelling enteric neural circuits
XXVI. Beyond the gut
XXVII. Was our work on guinea pigs wasted?
XXVIII. The 1990s; a decade of closures and further explorations
XXIX. Final unravelling of the enteric circuits; the arrival of Simon Brookes
XXX. Spatial pharmacology
XXXI. Presidency of the Australian Neuroscience Society and other adventures
XXXII. The Human ENS
XXXIII. Teaching administration and research
XXXV. Back to the brain and eventually back to the gut
XXXVI. My last years: the enteric circuits in the modern era
Acknowledgements
References
Brief Curriculum Vitae
Colleagues’ perspectives
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