[Effect of noradrenaline on oxidative metabolism in the golden hamster adapted to cold].

I. m. administration of 0.2 mg/kg noradrenaline enhanced the oxidative metabolism both in the whole organism and in skeletal muscles in vivo in golden hamsters. In the hamsters adapted to cold (+4 degrees C) during 40 days the effect of noradrenaline was particularly obvious. The data obtained suggest a major energy power of the skeletal muscles as well as initiation of non-contractile heat production in them in the golden hamsters adapted to cold.