DETECTABLE AMOUNTS OF ADRENOCORTICOTROPHIC HORMONE IN BLOOD FOLLOWING EPINEPHRINE

1 February 1952

journal article
research article
Published by The Endocrine Society in Endocrinology

Vol. 50 (2) , 274-276
https://doi.org/10.1210/endo-50-2-274

Abstract

Blood from control and epinephrine-injd. rats was assayed for ACTH in recipient hypophysectomized rats. The ACTH titer increased following epinephrine injn. The ACTH in blood from control rats was estimated to be 0.026 m. U./cc. One min. after epinephrine admn., the concn. of ACTH in blood was estimated to be 0.064 m. U/cc. The mechanism which controls the blood level of ACTH apparently responds with extreme rapidity to the admn. of epinephrine.

Keywords

ACTH/IN BLOOD
EPINEPHRINE/EFFECTS

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INCREASE IN THE FORMATION AND SECRETION OF ACTH FOLLOWING ADRENALECTOMY¹
Endocrinology, 1951
THE ADRENAL CORTEX AND HOMEOSTASIS
Physiological Reviews, 1950