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WORKERS1 vary in their methods of calculating the adrenaline and noradrenaline content of adrenal glands. Some express them in micrograms per unit weight of gland, some in micrograms per gland and some even in micrograms per kilogram of body-weight. Since, frequently, there is a difference between the weight of the left and of the right gland of each cat, it was thought desirable to determine whether the percentage of noradrenaline is the same in the two glands, and whether the total amine content is the same for both glands or whether the heavier gland contains more amine.
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BUTTERWORTH, K., MANN, M. Relationship between the Amine Contents of the Two Adrenal Glands of the Cat. Nature 178, 363 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178363a0
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