norepinephrine Biochem.
(ˌnɔːrɛpɪˈnɛfrɪn)
[f. nor- + epinephrine.]
= noradrenaline.
| 1948 Jrnl. Pharmacol. & Exper. Therap. XCII. 369 Norepinephrine (‘Arterenol’), a racemic compound,..is 1·5 times more pressor than racemic epinephrine. 1951 A. Grollman Pharmacol. & Therapeutics xi. 205 Norepinephrine is a vasoconstrictor and unlike epinephrine does not decrease the peripheral resistance or increase the cardiac output. 1962 J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 115 The flow of norephinephrine [sic] from his adrenal glands during the flight had been more than 2½ times what it had normally been. 1971 Nature 2 Apr. 330/1 Some, if not all, states of mental depression may be associated with a deficiency in norepinephrine..at functionally important receptor sites in the brain. |