Abstract
Spinal cord hemisection between T2 and T3 inhibits compensatory adrenal growth when the contralateral but not the ipsilateral adrenal is removed (p<0.01). Pretreatment of left adrenals with 1 or 2% lidocaine, but not with saline, before removal inhibits compensatory right adrenal growth that is normally observed at 12 h (p<0.01). The9e results provide further functional evidence that both afferent and efferent neural elements mediate adrenal growth after unilateral adrenalectomy.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1659-1662 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Endocrinology |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1976 |