Influence of Adrenaline on Blood Flow and Metabolism in the Human Forearm

Abstract

Abstract Lundholm. L. and N. Svedniyr. Infuence of adrenalbie on blood fow and metabolism in the human forearm. A cta physiol. scand. 1963. 65 . 344–351. Intravenous infusion of adrenaline appreciably raised the blood flow. oxygen consumption, CO 2 ‐ ‐ production, CO 2 ‐ ‐ tension and lactic acid elimination in the human forearm. The interrelationship of these effects is discussed. The rise in CO 2 ‐ ‐ production is assumed to have been due to increased oxygen consumption as well as to an increase in the lactic acid content of the tissues. The rise in GO 2 ‐ ‐ tension resulted from an augniented CO 2 production. Adrenaline's observed vasodilator effect is attributed at least in part. to heighted CO 2 tension of blood and tissues.