
%0 Journal Article
%A Dooley, PC 
%A Williams, VJ 
%T Effects of Insulin Hypoglycaemia in the Sheep on Jugular Haematocrit and Plasma Corticosteroid Concentrations
%J Australian Journal of Biological Sciences
%D 1975/12/01
%V 28
%N 6
%P 503-510
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/BI9750503
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/BI9750503 
%X 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. 
