METHODS VMA determination. Patients receiving no medications and ingesting no fruit,
coffee, tea and substances containing appreciable quantities of vanilla for a period of 24 hours, …

Neuroblastoma, one of the most common solid malignant tumors of childhood, has been
frequently confused with other malignancies as well as nonneoplastic diseases. The …

Pheochromocytoma, fatal if undetected, is a rare cause of hypertension, paroxysmal symptoms
and a hypermetabolic state. The clinical signs and symptoms associated with this tumor …

The determination of urinary 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylethylene glycol (HMPG), a major
metabolite of epinephrine and norepinephrine by gas-liquid chromatography and electron …

The excretions of vanillylmandelic acid, normetanephrine and metanephrine, and homovanillic
acid in 140 normal children were determined and found to be a function of age. Standard …

Of 98 consecutive patients with neuroblastoma, 54 could be separated into survivor and non‐survivor
groups on the basis of an opportunity for a 2 year minimum period of observation. …

Ethanol was administered to Sprague-Dawley rats for 4–6 weeks following which these animals
thrived in a manner comparable to a naive control group. Over 6 months after an ethanol…

The use of gas-liquid chromatography (GLC) for the analysis of amines of biological interest
is currently under investigation in our laboratory. An intensive study of the chromatographic …

A rapid and simple chemical technic for screening hypertensive subjects for the presence of
a pheochromocytoma is described. The procedure involves the semiquantitative estimation …

Measurements of sensitivity of the digital blood vessels to infused norepinephrine were made
in 4 patients with Cushing's syndrome due to adrenal cortical tumor or hyperplasia and 13 …