Abstract
Summary
1. Gentling acts as a stressor and increases blood pressure in adrenal-enucleated as well as intact rats. 2. At the same time gentling seems to promote growth, a paradoxical situation since growth is generally considered to be depressed by the activities of ACTH and glucocorticoids. 3. This paradox may be explained by one of the currently held concepts of the mechanism of adrenal-regeneration hypertension, namely the secretion of a hypertensive steroid other than corticosterone which is, however, ACTH-dependent.
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