Catecholamine levels in rat adrenals increase post-mortem.
Catecholamine (CA) levels in rat adrenals increase significantly over the first day post-mortem, but then decrease. This suggests that adrenal CA synthesis is active after death and stress the possibility that tissue levels of CAs may increase post-mortem. This has to be considered when evaluating post-mortem tissue CA levels.
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Department of Women and Child Health, Q2:07, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm S-17176, Sweden. hans.holgert@kbh.ki.se
D000311:Adrenal Glands / Q000378:metabolism*; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D004837:Epinephrine / Q000378:metabolism*; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000378:metabolism*; D011180:Postmortem Changes; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
D009638:Norepinephrine; D004837:Epinephrine