MadSci Network: Medicine |
Well, I could not put my hands on a prodcution/clearnace value for adrenaline...it's a rather tricky thing to describe, since not all adrenaline is exceted into blood or unrine were you could easily measure it in a human subject. Maybe the next best thing would be the amount of adrenaline in the blood at any given time. That number is about 0.1 nmol/L of blood. Given a molecular weight of about 183g/mol, 5 liters of blood, that works out to a total amount of adrenaline circulating of 0.000002 grams (or 0.2 micrograms)...still not very much! Hope this helps. MGT
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