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Symposium on hypertension part I: Etiology and pathologic physiology| Volume 9, ISSUE 5, P717-723, May 01, 1962

Pharmacology and metabolism of norepinephrine in patients with essential hypertension

  • Stanley E. Gitlow
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    From the Department of Medicine and the Andre Meyer Department of Physics, The Mount Sinai Hospital, and the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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  • Milton Mendlowitz
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    From the Department of Medicine and the Andre Meyer Department of Physics, The Mount Sinai Hospital, and the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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  • Alfred Smith
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    From the Department of Medicine and the Andre Meyer Department of Physics, The Mount Sinai Hospital, and the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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  • Elmer Gall
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    From the Department of Medicine and the Andre Meyer Department of Physics, The Mount Sinai Hospital, and the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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  • Robert L. Wolf
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    From the Department of Medicine and the Andre Meyer Department of Physics, The Mount Sinai Hospital, and the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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  • Nosrat E. Naftchi
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    From the Department of Medicine and the Andre Meyer Department of Physics, The Mount Sinai Hospital, and the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9149(62)90132-7
Pharmacology and metabolism of norepinephrine in patients with essential hypertension
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      Abstract

      • 1.
        1. The relationship of norepinephrine to essential hypertension was reviewed.
      • 2.
        2. The metabolism of H3-labelled norepinephrine was studied in normal subjects and in patients with essential hypertension.
      • 3.
        3. No difference in plasma concentration and urinary excretion of H3-labelled metabolites was demonstrated between the two groups in this study, but further investigations are in progress.
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      ☆Aided by grants from the American Heart Association, The National Heart Institute (H1164) (H6546) (Cardio) and The National Institute of Mental Health (M1434).

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9149(62)90132-7

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