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Failure to demonstrate natriuretic activity in the posterior pituitary after immunoneutralization of the vasopressin
J Ponec1, O Földes, B Lichardus
1Institute of Experimental Endocrinology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.
Abstract:
The attempt to demonstrate the presence of a natriuretic substance in the posterior pituitary after immunoneutralization of the AVP content failed. Rats infused i.v. AVP-immunoneutralized posterior pituitary extract did not respond by natriuresis to a saline infusion, in contrast to those infused untreated posterior pituitary extract. Thus, vasopressin seems to be the natriuretic substance in the posterior pituitary extract.