Observations on the chemical determination of adrenaline

Abstract

IN the routine estimation of adrenaline in suprarenal or other tissue extracts none of the chemical or physiological properties so utilized can be regarded as specific to adrenaline. Much work has been done in recent years to decide which of these is least liable to error. Notable discrepancies in the results obtained by a variety of physiological methods have been recorded by the Tokio School for suprarenal extracts from different species of animals [