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THE possibility that noradrenaline carboxylic acid, 3,4-dihydroxyphenylserine, might be a precursor of adrenaline has been suggested previously1. Recently, it has found experimental support2. Experiments carried out in Oxford3 have shown that lævo-nor-adrenaline was formed when the amino-acid was decarboxylated by bacterial preparations; but no similar reaction was observed in mammalian tissue extracts.
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BEYER, K., BLASCHKO, H., BURN, J. et al. Enzymic Formation of norAdrenaline in Mammalian Tissue Extracts. Nature 165, 926 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/165926a0
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