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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Effects of Insulin Hypoglycaemia in the Sheep on Jugular Haematocrit and Plasma Corticosteroid Concentrations

PC Dooley and VJ Williams

Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 28(6) 503 - 510
Published: 1975

Abstract

Insulin hypoglycaemia, by acting as a stressor, caused an increase in plasma corticosteroid concentration in sheep. It did not increase jugular haematocrit in splenectomized sheep, but caused an increase, presumably by splenic contraction, in the following sheep: two control, one with one adrenal cortex as its only adrenal tissue, two with denervated spleens, and two splanchnicotomized animals. These preparations showed that insulin hypoglycaemia can cause a splenic contraction in the absence of an increase in plasma adrenaline- and after splenic extrinsic denervation.

https://doi.org/10.1071/BI9750503

© CSIRO 1975

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