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THE production of aldosterone by isolated adrenal glands in vivo or by adrenal tissue in vitro can be significantly stimulated by an elevation of the potassium concentration in the circulating blood1,2 or in the incubation medium3,4. The work recorded here was undertaken to investigate whether ammonium ions have a similar direct effect on steroid production by rat adrenal incubates.
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MüLLER, J. Stimulation of Aldosterone Production in vitro by Ammonium Ions. Nature 206, 92 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/206092a0
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