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 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 ...

The anti-diuretic hormone "vasopressin" is released from the brain, and known to work in the kidney, suppressing the diuresis. Now, researchers have clarified that the novel function of "vasopressin" ...

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 ...

Innsbruck, Austria - The results of a recent study have shown that in out-of-hospital asystolic cardiac-arrest patients requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), the administration of vasopressin ...

Ample evidence is available to implicate vasopressin, a small polypeptide that is synthesized in the hypothalamus and secreted from the posterior pituitary, in the pathogenesis of most hyponatremic ...

"Oxytocin and vasopressin are being used extensively as therapeutics in humans right now. Regulation of the oxytocin system has been implicated in things ranging from autism to schizophrenia to ...

Diabetes insipidus is where the body loses too much fluid through urination, causing a significant risk of dangerous dehydration and a range of other conditions. The condition takes two main forms: ...

Closely related meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus), on the other hand, take a more standard approach. They mate with several females and pay little attention to their babies. Previous studies ...