Seasonal Variations of Noradrenaline and Adrenaline Concentrations in Rat Tissues (original) (raw)

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VARIATIONS of catecholamine concentration in tissues from normal male Wistar rats were observed in the course of experiments covering a twelve-month period ; further estimations were afterwards carried out to confirm these variations. Adrenaline and nor-adrenaline were estimated fluorimetrically in heart, kidneys, liver, diaphragm, leg muscles, brain and spleen using a modification1 of the method of Weil-Malherbe and Bone2. The results comprise between 24 and 74 individual estimations on each tissue extending over periods of up to 25 months.

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MONTAGU, K. Seasonal Variations of Noradrenaline and Adrenaline Concentrations in Rat Tissues.Nature 178, 417–418 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178417a0

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