Br J Pharmacol Chemother 22(1): 204-210
A sensitive method for the assay of catechol amines
Abstract
A strip of fundus from a rat's stomach was suspended in Krebs solution containing 5-hydroxytryptamine. Movements of the muscle were recorded by means of a frontal writing lever giving a magnification of sixteen-times. The strip relaxed when isoprenaline, adrenaline or noradrenaline was added to the organ-bath in concentrations of 0.2 to 2 ng/ml. The preparation was most sensitive to isoprenaline and least sensitive to noradrenaline. The components of a mixture of two catechol amines could be assayed by superfusing the rat stomach and a chick rectum in the same stream of fluid.
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