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Science 30 April 1965:
Vol. 148. no. 3670, pp. 644 - 646
DOI: 10.1126/science.148.3670.644
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Epinephrine-Induced Normalization of Lipid Metabolism in Adrenalectomized Rats

Meyer Friedman 1 and Sanford O. Byers 1

1 Harold Brunn Institute, Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco, California 94115

In adrenalectomized rats given adequate supportive therapy with sodium chloride and hydrocortisone, lipemia is markedly elevated after a triglyceride meal. This defect can be corrected by the administration of epinephrine.

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