“…There is now much evidence that renin secretion is markedly influenced by the sympathetic nervous system and catecholamines acting on renal j-adrenoceptors (Vander, 1965;Wathen, Kingsbury, Stouder, Schneider & Rostorfer, 1965;Assaykeen, Clayton, Goldfien & Ganong, 1970;Ueda, Yasuda, Takabatake, lizuka, lizuka, Ihori & Sakamoto, 1970;Johnson, Davis & Witty, 1971;Winer, Chokshi & Walkenhorst, 1971;Ganong, 1972;Tanigawa, Allison & Assaykeen, 1972;Davis, 1973;Vandongen, Peart & Boyd, 1973). It is believed that the effect of many hormones on their target cells is mediated by stimulation of adenyl-cyclase leading to increase in 3',5' cyclic adenosine monophosphoric acid (cyclic AMP), regarded as the 'second messenger' (Robison, Butcher & Sutherland, 1971;Butcher, Robison & Sutherland, 1972).…”