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IF both adrenal bodies be extirpated in a cat, the animal dies in three or four days. If the same operation be carried out in a decerebrate cat (brain removed to the level of the corpora quadrigemina) death ensues in less than an hour—usually within half an hour. The fatal result is due to failure of respiration, and may be indefinitely postponed by artificial respiration.
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VINCENT, S., THOMPSON, J. A Function of the Adrenal Cortex. Nature 122, 998 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122998b0
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