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von Euler and Lishajko1,2 have shown that dopamine occurs in the bovine lung in amounts up to 100 times higher than those of noradrenaline. They also demonstrated that the distribution of dopamine—in contrast to that of noradrenaline—was not related to the adrenergic nerves. On the basis of these findings, they concluded that dopamine in the lung cannot merely be an intermediate metabolite in the synthesis of noradrenaline in the adrenergic axons.
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FALCK, B., HILLARP, NÅ. & TORP, A. A New Type of Chromaffin Cells, probably storing Dopamine. Nature 183, 267–268 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183267a0
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