Catecholamines, like adrenaline and dopamine, are chemical messengers released in response to emotional or physical stress. Catecholamines prepare the body to take action. High or low levels can cause ...

Release of charged neurotransmitter molecules through a narrow fusion pore requires charge compensation by other ions. It has been proposed that this may occur by ion flow from the cytosol through ...

You’re probably already heard of cortisol. Otherwise known as the stress hormone, it plays a crucial role in the body’s stress response, and can lead to anxiety, high blood pressure, facial puffiness ...

Age, sex, hypertension and dietary sodium are proposed to affect plasma and urinary catecholamines. Yet no prior study has examined the simultaneous effects of these factors within the same study ...

The abnormality in catecholamine metabolism has now been further explored by measurement of the catecholamine content of the adrenal glands and heart muscle of children dying with dysautonomia. The ...

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