Abstract
OF the different metabolic disturbances caused by adrenalectomy, the increase of potassium in the blood plasma is believed by some authorities to be the most important, while others have emphasized more especially the disturbances in carbohydrate metabolism. It now seems possible, however, to connect these two sets of metabolic disturbance, as has been suggested earlier1 and can now be proved.
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Conway, E. J., and Boyle, P. J., NATURE, 144, 709 (1939).
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VERZR, F., SOMOGYI, J. Connexion between Carbohydrate and Potassium Metabolism in Normal and Adrenalectomized Animals. Nature 144, 1014–1015 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441014a0
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