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What is an adrenochrome?

What is an adrenochrome? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) An oxidation product of adrenaline or epinephrine; its semicarbazone is used as a drug to reduce bleeding.
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It did not cover, for example, adrenochrome, featured in the film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Unlike the dopamine hypothesis, the adrenochrome hypothesis accounts for many biochemical patterns common among schizophrenic patients.
To further our understanding of the psychology of schizophrenia, our biochemical team worked on adrenochrome, to establish how it was made and what it did.
We contended that in schizophrenic patients there was an abnormal production of adrenochrome, a derivative of adrenaline, and that this played a role in the genesis of the condition.
Three questions presented themselves: was adrenochrome really formed in the body, was it a hallucinogen and would an antidote be therapeutic for these patients?

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