“In untrained … venipuncture, pentobarbital (30 mg/kg … plasma concentration of epinephrine (E) from 146 +/- 9 to 38 +/- 8 (SE) pg/ml (n = 46) and norepinephrine (NE) from 276 +/- 13 to …/ml (both P less than 0.0005), suggesting that barbiturate anesthesia suppresses sympathetic outflow in these mildly stressed animals.”