Vasopressin plays a vital part in homeostasis by regulating water excretion in the kidney. But it seems that vasopressin also dampens the inflammatory response to uropathogenic Escherichia coli—a ...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colorado – The American Physiological Society conference on the neurohypophyseal hormones oxytocin and vasopressin is being held July 16-20. Below are thumbnail sketches of 13 ...

Vasopressin caught fire as an adjunct vasopressor for sepsis about 20 years ago. The rationale was that septic patients are vasopressin deficient, at least relatively, and they require exogenous ...

Vasopressin is an alternative to epinephrine for vasopressor therapy during cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but clinical experience with this treatment has been limited. We randomly assigned adults who ...

Lower doses of initial vasopressin were associated with lower mortality when used as an adjunct in patients with septic shock, according to a review of three recent studies. "Patients with septic ...

Oxytocin, arginine vasopressin, lysine vasopressin, arginine vasotocin, as well as their cyclic and acyclic analogs, were studied by carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in deuterium ...

New data from Ahmed et al. show that discharge prescriptions for renin–angiotensin–aldosterone inhibitor therapy are associated with a significant reduction in all-cause mortality in elderly patients ...

Freshly prepared aqueous solutions of vasopressin exhibited an inhibitory effect on the methacholine induced duodenal spasms of pentobarbital anesthetized dogs but failed to antagonize the ...