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Secretion of Aldosterone and Corticosterone by the Rat Adrenal

Nature volume 174, pages 790–791 (1954)Cite this article

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A STUDY has been made of the nature and regulation of rat adrenal steroid secretion. The adrenal-vein blood of rats was collected, extracted and chromatographed by the method of Bush1,2. Corticosterone was detected and estimated by the soda-fluorescence reaction1. Mineralocorticoid activity was estimated by the biological method of Simpson and Tait3.

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  1. BERTHA SINGER: In receipt of a grant from the Banting Research Foundation.

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SINGER, B., STACK-DUNNE, M. Secretion of Aldosterone and Corticosterone by the Rat Adrenal. Nature 174, 790–791 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/174790a0

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