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In seminal plasma 5×10−6 M noradrenaline was found to induced head-to-head association in bull spermatozoa. The sum of noradrenaline and adrenaline in freshly collected semen was 10 ng/ml (5.2×10−8M), i.e., about 100 times lower than previously reported.
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Lindahl, P.E., Sjöblom, P. & Tottmar, O. Catecholamines in bovine semen. Experientia 37, 860–861 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01985681
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