Isolation, Identification and Synthesis of a specific-behaviour-inducing Brain Peptide

A pentadecapeptide isolated from the brain of rats trained to avoid the dark has been chemically identified and its structure confirmed by synthesis. It induces dark avoidance in untrained animals.

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