[A new approach to studying the autoxidation of adrenaline: possibility of the determination of superoxide dismutase activity and the antioxidant properties of various preparations by polarography].

It was assumed that the neuro- and cardiotoxicity of quinone products of adrenaline oxidation is related not only to their "own" properties and reactive oxygen species formed but also the hypoxia of those regions of the cell and tissue where the quinoid oxidation of adrenaline occurs.