title: Determination of catecholamines and their metabolites in adrenals of stress-loaded and wild suncus (Suncus murinus).
abstract: The contents of catecholamines and their metabolites were measured in the adrenals of 3 groups of suncus. The first group was naive housed suncus; the second, suncus with stress-loading; and the third, wild ones. There were no significant differences in dopamine, norepinephrine and normetanephrine levels among the control, stress and wild groups. The content of epinephrine, however, decreased in the stress and wild group to 57% and 18%, respectively. These results suggest that housed suncus can easily react to stressful circumstances.
authors.affiliation: Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yazawa
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Maruoka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakajima
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nishiyama
mesh_terms: D000311:Adrenal Glands / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D002395:Catecholamines / Q000378:metabolism*; D004298:Dopamine / Q000378:metabolism; D004837:Epinephrine / Q000378:metabolism; D007312:Eulipotyphla; D008297:Male; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000378:metabolism; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D002395:Catecholamines; D004298:Dopamine; D009638:Norepinephrine; D004837:Epinephrine