Hormone secretion from neuroendocrine tissues is a highly regulated process that needs a finely tuned coordination between incoming and output signals. In this regard, adrenal chromaffin cells are ...

Quanfeng Zhang, Bing Liu, Yinglin Li, Lili Yin, Muhammad Younus, Xiaohan Jiang, Zhaohan Lin, Xiaoxuan Sun, Rong Huang, Bin Liu, Qihui Wu, Feipeng Zhu, Zhuan Zhou Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

PROMINENT among the symptoms of familial dysautonomia are the manifestations of autonomic dysfunction. 1 A disturbance in catecholamine metabolism has been documented by the demonstration of high ...

Catecholamines, such as dopamine and adrenaline, are hormones produced by the brain, nerve tissues, and adrenal glands. They are responsible for the body’s “fight-or-flight” response. Dopamine, ...

Pheochromocytoma is a catecholamine-producing tumor that originates from chromaffin cells of the adrenergic system, most commonly in the adrenal medulla. There are two main steps in the diagnosis of ...

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 ...