Monday, September 27, 2010

What is the difference between epinephrine and norepinephrine? Which locations they are secreted from?

What is the difference between epinephrine and norepinephrine? Which locations they are secreted from?
epi is a hormone that helps increase adrenaline, norepi help decrease.
Epinephrine is hormone of adrenal gland, nor-epinephrine is hormone and neurotransmitter. Nor-epinephrine produce within adrenal gland, and sympathetic postganglic adrenergic neurones of many organs such as :brain, heart, spleen...
Epinephrine and nor-epinephrine are cateholamins.
epi act on both the alpha receptors causing vasoconstiction and the beta receptors cause vasodilation...norepi acts on alpha 1 and alpha 2 receptors cause vasoconstriction...

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