THE RÔLE OF THE ADRENAL MEDULLA IN THE MAINTENANCE OF BLOOD PRESSURE

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Some of the earlier workers investigating the function of the adrenal medulla concluded as a result of their experiments that a constant secretion of adrenaline occurs which helps to maintain the normal blood pressure. Strehl and Weiss (9), who extirpated the adrenal gland on one side in rabbits, found that when the adrenal vein of the other side was clamped the blood pressure immediately fell, and that there was a recovery when the clamps were released. Marked falls of blood pressure were obtained in this way. Young and Lehmann (16) working in Vincent's laboratory repeated the experiments upon dogs but found little, if any, fall of blood pressure. One of the first workers to grow suspicious on this point was Vincent, who was unable to obtain any lowering of blood pressure when the adrenal veins were clamped and a consequent recovery when the clamps were released.

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