Cellular Actions of Arginine Vasopressin in the Kidney.

Cellular actions of arginine vasopressin in the kidney.

A knowledge base of vasopressin actions in the kidney.

Biological information is growing at a rapid pace, making it difficult for individual investigators to be familiar with all information that is relevant to their own research. Computers are beginning to be used to extract and curate biological information; however, the complexity of human language used in research papers continues to be a critical barrier to full automation of knowledge extract...

Arginine vasopressin in heart failure.

Pathogenesis of AVP Release In several animal models of low-output and high-output cardiac failure and in congestive heart failure in humans, it has been demonstrated that plasma AVP, renin activity, aldosterone and norepinephrine are significantly increased.7 Renal excretion of sodium and water is predominantly regulated by the integrity of the arterial circulation, which is determined by card...

Arginine vasopressin in vasodilatory shock.

To the Editor: Dünser et al1 concluded that the combined infusion of vasopressin and norepinephrine is superior to infusion of norepinephrine alone in the treatment of shock resistant to catecholamine. We believe that this study is flawed and do not support such a conclusion. First of all, the design included two interventions in parallel, one of arginine vasopressin (and its control group in t...

Arginine Vasopressin Potentiates Adrenocorticotropin

A bstract. Arginine vasopressin (AVP) stimulates ACTH release in man and acts synergistically with synthetic ovine corticotropin-releasing factor (oCRF) in vitro. This study was designed to examine in man the combined effects of synthetic AVP (10 U intramuscularly) and oCRF (1 gg/kg intravenously) on ACTH release. Five normal male volunteers participated in five separate experiments: (a) AVP al...