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Alterations in plasma dopamine-beta-hydroxylase and catecholamine concentrations during surgical removal of
Endokrinologie
|February 1, 1982
Abstract:
In order to determine the mechanism of release of catecholamines from pheochromocytoma plasma levels of noradrenaline (NA), adrenaline (A), dopamine (DA) and dopamine-beta-hydroxylase (DBH) were measured in 6 patients with pheochromocytoma undergoing surgical treatment. In 4 patients both the DBH activity and plasma catecholamine concentrations rapidly increased during surgical manipulation of the tumor. In the remaining 2 patients dispite increase of plasma catecholamines DBH activity remained unchanged during surgical manipulation of the pheochromocytoma. The present results suggest that a certain fraction of plasma catecholamines in patients with pheochromocytoma is released from the tumor by exocytosis.