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Aldosterone Secretion : Differences in Direct Effects of Rubidium and Potassium Perfusion into Dog Adrenals

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MORE than eighty years ago, Ringer1 observed that rubidium ions had effects on the frog's ventricles similar to those produced by potassium. Since then these two ions have been found to be very nearly interchangeable in a wide variety of biochemical and physiological processes2.

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    JAMES G. HILTON, SHELDON ALTER & PAUL CUSHMAN

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HILTON, J., ALTER, S. & CUSHMAN, P. Aldosterone Secretion : Differences in Direct Effects of Rubidium and Potassium Perfusion into Dog Adrenals. Nature 208, 1099–1100 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2081099a0

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