PLASMA LEVEL OF NOREPINEPHRINE, CYCLIC AMP AND CYCLIC GMP IN ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION

• Published in: JAPANESE CIRCULATION JOURNAL Vol. 45; no. 6; pp. 654 - 660
• Main Authors: OGAWA, KOUICHI, MATSUNO, TSUGUO, TSUCHIYA, SEIYA, BAN, MASAAKI, MINAGUCHI, KAZUE
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Japan The Japanese Circulation Society 01.01.1981
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Blood Pressure; C-AMP; C-GMP; Cyclic AMP - blood; Cyclic GMP - blood; Essential hypertension; Female; Humans; Hypertension - blood; Hypertension - physiopathology; Male; Middle Aged; Norepinephrine; Norepinephrine - blood; Sympathetic Nervous System - physiopathology

Mean concentration of plasma norepinephrine of 66 normal subjects was 0.23 ± 0.02 ng/ml, but that of 81 hypertensives was 0.25 ± 0.02 ng/ml. There was no significant difference of plasma norepinephrine concentration between the normotensives and the hypertensives. However, a significant correlation...