vasopressin in English

noun
1
a pituitary hormone that acts to promote the retention of water by the kidneys and increase blood pressure.
The amount of water your body gets rid of is regulated by an anti-diuretic hormone called vasopressin .
noun
    antidiuretic hormone

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1. Vasopressin Antagonists are drugs that bind to vasopressin receptors (V1A, V1B and V2) and block the action of vasopressin (antidiuretic hormone, ADH), which is a hormone released by the pituitary gland

2. Agent that is agonistic to oxytocin receptor and/or antagonistic to vasopressin receptor

3. Neither oxytocin nor vasopressin release was observed following thyroid-releasing hormone or insulin-induced hypoglycemia.

4. When added in the presence of vasopressin, PGE2 inhibits cyclic AMP generation and water absorption.

5. 27 Objective : To assess the effect of arginine vasopressin ( AVP ) peptide on stress induced hyperthermia.

6. 30 Produced by the hypothalamus and secreted into the bloodstream by the posterior pituitary gland, vasopressin instructs the kidneys to conserve water.

7. In eleven patients with diabetes insipidus centralis the effect of chlorpropamide, tolbutamide, glybenclamide, glycodiazin, hydrochlorothiazide and vasopressin was investigated.

8. A very similar substance, lysine vasopressin (LVP) or lypressin, has the same function in pigs and is used in human AVP deficiency.

9. Chronic use of heroin and other opioids has been shown to be a potential cause of hyponatremia, resultant because of excess vasopressin secretion.

10. In this context, the endocrine stress response is mainly represented by adrenaline (A), noradrenaline (NA), antidiuretic hormone/vasopressin (ADH), adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), and cortisol.

11. Muscle cells from chick amnia were not significantly influenced by 10−6 to 10−3 mM oxytocin and 10−5 to 10−2 mM vasopressin.

12. The high-pressure or arterial Baroreceptors and low-pressure or atrial receptors are believed to participate in the reflex control of arginine vasopressin (AVP) and renin secretion

13. 1-Deamino-8-D-argnine vasopressin (DDAVP) is presented as an alternative to the transfusion of blood and blood products for the management of a bleeding diathesis.

14. In acute decompensated heart failure (Adhf), the degree of hyponatremia often parallels the severity of cardiac dysfunction and is further exacerbated by any reduction in glomerular filtration rate and arginine vasopressin dysregulation

15. Modulation of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity: oxytocin, under certain circumstances, indirectly inhibits release of adrenocorticotropic hormone and cortisol and, in those situations, may be considered an antagonist of vasopressin.

16. In both groups, increases in coronary vascular resistance were observed with vasopressin (40 IU/1) and phenylephrine (30 μM) and decreases with adenosine (10 μM), isoprenaline (0.1 μM) and 30 sec stopflow (all p<0.05).

17. More specifically, the signal or effector protein/peptide is selected from the group comprising antidiuretic hormones, in particular vasopressin and its derivatives, aldosteron and its derivatives, cytokines, in particular TNF-α, that affect hypertonicity-induced cation channels (HICCs).

18. Beside the well known diminution of portal flow by vasopressin, which is extreme in anaesthetised minipig, there could be shown a remarkable diminution by high intravenous doses of nicotinic acid too without significant changes of systemic blood pressure and heart rat.

19. We examined whether there was a minimal change in fetal arterial necessary to elicit alterations in plasma adrenocorticotropic hormone, arginine vasopressin, or cortisol or to affect the incidence of breathing movements or eye movements in fetal sheep at 106–117 days of gestation.

20. Hypernyms ("Angiotonin" is a kind of): pressor; vasoconstrictive; vasoconstrictor (any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure)

21. We conclude that a fetal arterial drop of between 4.1 and 8.4 mmHg is necessary to elicit responses to hypoxemia in fetal sheep at 106–117 days of gestation in adrenocorticotropic hormone, arginine vasopressin, and fetal breathing movements, but this degree of hypoxemia does not cause changes in cortisol or fetal eye movements.