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A long time ago, Toscano-Rico and Malafaya-Baptista (1935) incubated adrenaline with acetaldehyde, and attributed the loss of activity they observed to the formation of a condensation product, further suggesting that this reaction might occur in vivo. Non-enzymatic condensation of catecholamines with aldehydes is known to constitute the chemical process involved in fluorescence microscopy as well as in the formation of tetrahydropapaveroline (Holtz et al, 1964)
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Osswald, W., Azevedo, I. (1980). Chemical Sympathectomy Due to Tetrahydroisoquinolines Derived from Adrenaline. In: Begleiter, H. (eds) Biological Effects of Alcohol. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 126. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3632-7_12
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