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Meanings of pitressin in English
Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus; affects blood pressure by stimulating capillary muscles and reduces urine flow by affecting reabsorption of water by kidney tubules.
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Examples for "vasopressin"
Examples for "vasopressin"
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The findings provide information necessary for modeling the transcriptional response to vasopressin.
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Arginine vasopressin is considered to play an important role in severe hemorrhage.
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Medical therapies such as vasopressin and somatostatin can also be useful adjuncts.
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During treatment oestradiol appeared to enhance and testosterone to suppress vasopressin release.
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Copeptin is a sensitive and more stable surrogate marker for arginine vasopressin.
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Patients who lack this antidiuretic hormone suffer from central diabetes insipidus.
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A single E2078 administration reduced plasma antidiuretic hormone dose-dependently.
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The syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone seems to us to be a frequent complication of severe craniocerebral trauma.
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Surgical intervention, in the case of acute craniocerebral trauma, does not result in a higher frequency of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone.
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The hyponatremia caused by syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (SIADH) was treated with normal saline and water restriction.
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Conclusion: We conclude that rare ADH variants are specific for alcohol dependence.
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Twenty-four hours after LDN, mean ADH levels had returned to normal values.
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The incidence of ADH seems to be lower than in Western countries.
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These localization patterns were basically the same in water-loaded and ADH-treated animals.
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Only one case of ADH could be detected by imprint cytology.
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