“…Catecholamines have been repeatedly implicated in cardiac hypertrophy in studies of exogenously administered isoprenaline, adrenaline or noradrenaline (Fisher, Horst & Kopin, 1965;Nair, Cutilletta & Rabinowitz, 1968;Stanton, Brenner & Mayfield, 1969;Feldman & Russell, 1972;Laks, Morady & Swan, 1973;Byus, Chubb, Huxtable & Russell, 1976). Three fold elevations of the endogenous plasma catecholamine, adrenaline, have been shown to parallel cardiac hypertrophy in the dog (Womble, Haddox & Russell, 1978) whereas ablation of plasma adrenaline by adrenal medulla denervation prevents cardiac hypertrophy after aortic constriction (Womble, Larson, Copeland, Brown, Haddox & Russell, 1980).…”