Wash‐out of noradrenaline and its metabolites by calcium‐free reperfusion after ischaemia: support for the concept of ischaemia‐induced noradrenaline release

Article date: January 1984

By: T. Abrahamsson, O. Almgren, L. Carlsson in Volume 81, Issue 1, pages 22-24

The outflow of noradrenaline (NA) and its metabolites on reperfusion after 60 min of regional ischaemia in the isolated heart of the rat was not diminished when calcium was omitted from the reperfusion medium. The findings suggest a release of NA during ischaemia, washed‐out at reperfusion.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1984.tb10738.x

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