Human vasopressin, also called antidiuretic hormone (ADH), arginine vasopressin (AVP) or argipressin, is a hormone synthesized from the AVP gene as a...
45 KB (4,138 words) - 10:18, 12 August 2024
The actions of vasopressin are mediated by stimulation of tissue-specific G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) called vasopressin receptors that are classified...
11 KB (974 words) - 03:10, 10 March 2024
Vasopressin receptor 1A (V1AR), or arginine vasopressin receptor 1A (officially called AVPR1A) is one of the three major receptor types for vasopressin...
29 KB (3,516 words) - 03:58, 16 July 2024
Diabetes insipidus (redirect from Vasopressin-resistant diabetes insipidus)
insipidus (DI) (arginine vasopressin disorder), alternately called arginine vasopressin deficiency (AVP-D) or arginine vasopressin resistance (AVP-R), is...
27 KB (2,782 words) - 12:25, 16 August 2024
Vasopressin infusions are in use for septic shock patients not responding to fluid resuscitation or infusions of catecholamines (e.g., dopamine or norepinephrine)...
25 KB (2,496 words) - 15:39, 20 December 2023
Vasopressin analogues are chemicals similar in function but not necessarily similar in structure to vasopressin (ADH), such as desmopressin. Desmopressin...
3 KB (207 words) - 05:24, 9 September 2023
Central diabetes insipidus (redirect from Arginine vasopressin deficiency)
arginine vasopressin deficiency (AVP-D), is a form of diabetes insipidus that is due to a lack of vasopressin (ADH) production in the brain. Vasopressin acts...
23 KB (2,255 words) - 15:50, 11 August 2024
Vasopressin receptor 2 (V2R), or arginine vasopressin receptor 2 (officially called AVPR2), is a protein that acts as receptor for vasopressin. AVPR2 belongs...
15 KB (1,740 words) - 11:59, 4 January 2024
Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (redirect from Arginine vasopressin resistance)
Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, recently renamed arginine vasopressin resistance (AVP-R) and previously known as renal diabetes insipidus, is a form of...
12 KB (1,177 words) - 19:35, 19 August 2024
Oxytocin (category Vasopressin receptor agonists)
childbirth in patients with complications. By the 1920s, oxytocin and vasopressin had been isolated from pituitary tissue and given their current names...
104 KB (11,649 words) - 03:28, 28 July 2024
of vasopressin due to their actions being associated with the hormones testosterone and oestrogen. Oxytocin elicits social bonding, and vasopressin produces...
19 KB (2,123 words) - 07:19, 8 August 2024
Desmopressin (redirect from 1-desamino-8-D-arginine vasopressin)
appears to be safe to use during pregnancy. It is a synthetic analogue of vasopressin, the hormone that plays roles in the control of the body's osmotic balance...
17 KB (1,518 words) - 18:20, 7 November 2023
Copeptin (section Surrogate vasopressin marker)
the C-terminus of pre-pro-hormone of arginine vasopressin, neurophysin II and copeptin. Arginine vasopressin (AVP), also known as the antidiuretic hormone...
17 KB (1,760 words) - 03:42, 18 May 2022
Vasopressin V1b receptor (V1BR) also known as vasopressin 3 receptor (VPR3) or antidiuretic hormone receptor 1B is a protein that in humans is encoded...
15 KB (1,757 words) - 03:12, 10 March 2024
A vasopressin receptor antagonist (VRA) is an agent that interferes with action at the vasopressin receptors. Most commonly VRAs are used in the treatment...
10 KB (1,059 words) - 05:14, 3 June 2024
each works in a distinct way. Alternatively, an antidiuretic, such as vasopressin (antidiuretic hormone), is an agent or drug which reduces the excretion...
23 KB (2,001 words) - 07:09, 22 June 2024
hormones such as testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, oxytocin, and vasopressin. In most mammalian species, sex hormones control the ability and motivation...
48 KB (5,709 words) - 11:12, 22 June 2024
a site for the secretion of neurohypophysial hormones (oxytocin and vasopressin) directly into the blood. The hypothalamic–neurohypophyseal system is...
7 KB (645 words) - 14:36, 16 May 2024
contains about 3,000 neurons. The cell bodies produce the peptide hormone vasopressin, which is also known as anti-diuretic hormone (ADH), and the peptide...
13 KB (1,616 words) - 08:13, 31 July 2024
stimulate the vasopressin receptor 2 at the kidney (the site of ADH action); or inherited mutations leading to a gain of function of the vasopressin-2 receptor...
35 KB (4,047 words) - 07:14, 21 July 2024
of vasopressin by the secondary messenger system. Vasopressin levels are reduced after the ingestion of alcohol. The lower levels of vasopressin from...
29 KB (3,270 words) - 15:49, 13 July 2024
of the hypothalamus produce neurohypophysial hormones, oxytocin and vasopressin. These hormones are released into the blood in the posterior pituitary...
50 KB (4,969 words) - 01:43, 22 August 2024
vasoconstriction. Vasopressin regulates the body's retention of water by increasing water reabsorption in the collecting ducts of the kidney nephron. Vasopressin increases...
16 KB (1,802 words) - 15:07, 1 July 2024
AVP gene (section Vasopressin)
The arginine vasopressin gene (AVP) is a gene whose product is proteolytically cleaved to produce vasopressin (also known as antidiuretic hormone or ADH)...
21 KB (2,611 words) - 13:33, 12 March 2024
pituitary. These projecting neurons secrete oxytocin and a smaller amount of vasopressin, otherwise the nucleus also secretes corticotropin-releasing hormone...
13 KB (1,330 words) - 04:53, 29 July 2024
Neurophysin II (redirect from Arginine vasopressin-neurophysin II)
Although it is stored in neurosecretory granules with vasopressin and released with vasopressin into the bloodstream, its biological action is unclear...
4 KB (490 words) - 23:44, 28 January 2024
reabsorption and excretion, processes regulated by the hormones aldosterone and vasopressin (antidiuretic hormone). There are several components of the collecting...
21 KB (2,211 words) - 13:32, 15 August 2024
Magnocellular neurons: Antidiuretic hormone (ADH, also known as vasopressin and arginine vasopressin AVP), the majority of which is released from the supraoptic...
25 KB (2,767 words) - 22:06, 4 August 2024
It is encoded by the AQP2 gene. It is the only aquaporin regulated by vasopressin. The basic job of aquaporin 2 is to reabsorb water from the urine while...
12 KB (1,481 words) - 23:48, 8 April 2024
endogenous antidiuretics are antidiuretic hormone (ADH; also called vasopressin) and oxytocin. Both of those are also used exogenously as medications...
2 KB (152 words) - 06:31, 10 November 2022