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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The substance appears to be involved in a number of social and sensory processes that go awry in people with autism spectrum disorder Ask a physician what the hormone vasopressin is good for, and she ...

"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 ...

It feels like deja vu to be writing about neuropeptides like vasopressin again, since I just discussed them in a June 2018 post. But two new clinical trials using vasopressin in ASD were just ...

IN the preparatory stages of a projected study of the hypothalamic control of release of adrenocortico-trophic hormone, large doses of reserpine, serotonin creatinine sulphate, and commercial ...