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IT is now widely accepted that, provided the sympathetic innervation is intact, adrenaline is discharged continuously from the suprarenal medulla, even under basal conditions. Several authors1 found a basal discharge of 0.03–0.06 µgm./kgm./min. from the two suprarenals of cats and dogs. According to our results2, the adrenaline arteriovenous difference in man is about 0.5 µgm./l. of blood, which corresponds, as a first approximation, to a rate of utilization of about 0.03 µgm./kgm./min.—a value in good agreement with the established rate of adrenaline discharge.
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WEIL-MALHERBE, H., BONE, A. Blood Platelets as Carriers of Adrenaline and Noradrenaline. Nature 174, 557–558 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/174557b0
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