ANTIDIURETIC HORMONE

ănˌtēdīyoorĕtˈĭk, polypeptide hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland. Its principal action is to regulate the amount of water excreted by the kidneys. Antidiuretic hormone (ADH), known also as vasopressin, causes the kidneys to resorb water directly from the renal tubules, thus concentrating the salts and waste products in the liquid, which will eventually become urine. ADH secretion by the pituitary is regulated by neural connections from the hypothalamus, which is believed to monitor either the volume of blood passing through it or the concentration of water in the blood. Dehydration or body stress will raise ADH secretion and water will be retained. Alcohol inhibits ADH secretion. Failure of the pituitary to produce ADH results in diabetes insipidus. In pharmacological doses ADH acts as a vasoconstrictor. The structure and chemical synthesis of ADH was announced (1953) by Nobel laureate Vincent Du Vigneaud and others.

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Animal Hormones: A Comparative Survey - Vol. 1
Book by Penelope M. Jenkin, John E. Harris; Pergamon Press, 1962
Subjects: Hormones
...back to water. An antidiuretic hormone from the neurohypophysis...endosmosis. Such antidiuretic hormones occur in most vertebrates...for this type of hormone, so often referred...distinct from the antidiuretic hormone and acting...
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Neuroendocrinology
Book by Ernst Scharrer, Berta Scharrer; Columbia University Press, 1963
Subjects: Neuroendocrinology
...amount of water in the absence of the antidiuretic principle. The fact that the antidiuretic hormone can be obtained from the posterior pituitary...in the posterior pituitary produce the antidiuretic principle under the control of hypothalamic...
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Cells, Aging, and Human Disease
Book by Michael B. Fossel; Oxford University Press, 2004
Subjects: Aging, Cells--Aging
...either question. Some hormones, such as antidiuretic hormone, have little dispute...from no change in antidiuretic hormone to severe...hormonal dysfunction in antidiuretic hormone may be any...are deaf to thyroid hormone) requires data...circulating thyroid hormones (Timiras, 1995b...
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Our Marvelous Bodies: An Introduction to the Physiology of Human Health
Book by Gary F. Merrill; Rutgers University Press, 2008
Subjects: Human Physiology
...cyclase, 27 ADH. See antidiuretic hormone adrenal cortex, 47...regulation of, 41 adrenal hormones, 47 48 adrenal medulla...Society, 1 amino acid hormones, 39 40, 39 t amino...immune system, 138 antidiuretic hormone (ADH), 95; function...95, 167. See also antidiuretic hormone arterial blood...
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Evidence-Based Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents
Book by Alan E. Kazdin, John R. Weisz; Guilford Press, 2003
Subjects: Adolescent Psychotherapy, Child Psychotherapy, Evidence-Based Psychiatry
...Hypotheses regarding the role of antidiuretic hormone in bedwetting have been investigated...that manufacture synthetic antidiuretic hormone have a vested interest...production of naturally occurring antidiuretic hormone. At best such an etiological...
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journal articles on: Antidiuretic Hormone  - 11 results

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Alcohol Hangover: Mechanisms and Mediators
Journal article by Robert Swift, Dena Davidson; Alcohol Health and Research World, Vol. 22, 1998
Subjects: Alcohol use, Medical disorders, Nervous system
...of a hormone (i.e., antidiuretic hormone, or vasopressin...turn, reduced levels of antidiuretic hormone prevent the kidneys...production, however, because antidiuretic hormone levels increase...release of cortisol, a hormone that plays a role in carbohydrate...several neurotransmitters and hormones that are implicated in the...
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A Defense of the Whole-Brain Concept of Death
Journal article by James L. Bernat; The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 28, 1998
Subjects: Brain death--Analysis, Certification, Death, Death--Proof and certification
...apparently retained hypothalamic neurosecretion of antidiuretic hormone sufficient to prevent diabetes insipidus. While I agree that secretion of antidiuretic hormone counts as a function of the organism as a whole...
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The Pediatric Physiologic Stress Response: a Concept Analysis
Journal article by Fccm Ccrn Mn Cathy H Rosenthal-Dichter Rn; Scholarly Inquiry for Nursing Practice, Vol. 10, 1996
...recruitment of numerous hormones including adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH), glucocorticoids...growth hormone, and antidiuretic hormone (see Table 2...Table 2, numerous hormones participate in the...infants plasma steroid hormone response, steroid precursor hormones, including progesterone...
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Therapeutic Treatment Protocol for Enuresis Using an Enuresis Alarm
Journal article by Bettina E. Shapira, Penny Dahlen; Journal of Counseling and Development, Vol. 88, 2010
Subjects: Bedwetting--Care and treatment, Bedwetting--Psychological aspects, Bedwetting--Social aspects, Childhood self control--Physiological aspects, Enuresis--Care and treatment, Enuresis--Psychological aspects, Enuresis--Social aspects, Self-control (Child psychology)--Physiological aspects
...capacity, and low level of the antidiuretic hormone (ADH) vasopressin. Genetic...gland for nocturnal release. The hormone functions in a way that reduces...vasopressin. Similar to the natural hormone, desmopressin regulates the reabsorbing...
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Myths and Realities of Aging
Journal article by Brooke Salzman; Care Management Journals, Vol. 7, 2006
...may be preferred to systemic hormone replacement therapy, has been...and antihistamines, thyroid hormones, decongestants, corticosteroids...include syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion, extrapyramidal symptoms...
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Sleep-related Disorders and Their Treatments
Magazine article by W. Marvin Davis; Drug Topics, Vol. 139, June 12, 1995
Subjects: Continuing education, Illnesses, Pharmacists, Therapy, United States
...hour cycle. Melatonin, a pineal gland hormone rather similar in chemical structure to...nocturnal rise in secretion of antidiuretic hormone; they were also found to experience nocturia...glucocorticoid c. Thyrotropin d. Antidiuretic hormone 14. Neurological diseases in which sleep...
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The Pharmacist's Role in Mental Health
Magazine article by Kathy Hitchens; Drug Topics, April 1997
Subjects: Continuing education, Drug therapy, Mental disorders, Pharmacists, Pharmacology, Prescription drugs, Psychiatry, Roles, United States
...Carbamazepine may cause syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone or water intoxication. Patients who complain of fatigue...psychomotor tasks were more impaired during the week of no hormone intake, because the benzodiazepines peaked more quickly...
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Counseling for Bed-wetting: New Business Opportunity
Magazine article by Katie Rodgers; Drug Topics, Vol. 140, April 8, 1996
Subjects: Counseling, Market strategy, Medical disorders, Niche marketing, Pharmacists, United States
...learned that some children with this condition have altered nighttime secretions of antidiuretic hormone. Also known as vasopressin, ADH is a pituitary hormone that regulates urinary output. If it is left untreated, primary nocturnal enuresis...
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New Drugs Update: 2009 Approvals, Part 2
Magazine article by Ryan R. Crossman, Jamie Lynn Thompson; Drug Topics, Vol. 154, April 2010
Subjects: Drug dosages, FDA approval, Pharmaceuticals, Series & special reports, United States
...which in turn decreases incretin hormones such as glucagonlike peptide- 1...DPP-4, which increases incretin hormones in the bloodstream reducing plasma...drrhosis, and syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (SIADH) secretion. Indication...
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A Pharmacist's Guide to Anti-inflammatories
Magazine article by W. Marvin Davis; Drug Topics, Vol. 142, December 7, 1998
Subjects: Continuing education, Drug therapy, Guidelines, Pharmacists, United States
...decrease in chloride and sodium excretion and decreased renin and aldosterone secretion but to a greater secretion of antidiuretic hormone. These effects can precipitate acute renal failure or reduced activity of diuretic and antihypertensive agents...
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The Adults Who Never Grow out of Bedwetting; Martin Clunes Admits Wetting His Bed in His Teens. but While He Beat It, Others Suffer Misery All Their Lives
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 27, 2011
...helps with the production of antidiuretic hormone, says Mr Almallah. Normally, the gland produces more of this hormone at night and this reduces the...at night, this works like the antidiuretic hormone, reducing the amount...
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Listen to Your Waterworks!
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 25, 2011
Subjects: Urinary incontinence, Water utilities
...BPH). It is caused by the hormone testosterone, but why it occurs...TO GO TO THE LOO IT COULD BE: Hormone changes, bladder muscle problems...cancer. The body produces an antidiuretic hormone which is secreted at night, so...
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A Z of Healthy Skin
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 18, 2006
...alcohol intake can block the production of the bodys antidiuretic hormone. As a result too much drinking makes the skin dehydrated...chemicals boost the production of testosterone, the male hormone that, in turn, can cause the skin to overproduce...
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Diabetics Need to Exercise
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 22, 2006
Subjects: Antihypertensive agents, Antihypertensive drugs, Diabetes, Diabetes mellitus, Diabetics, Exercise
...physicians today. More than 85 percent improved in a short time. At night, the brains of most younger people produce antidiuretic hormone, which shuts down the kidneys. However, as men age, most have to get up at night to urinate. Some men have...
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By the Time Youve Read This Article Your Body Will Have Lost a Quarter of a Glass of Water. . . Bottoms Up: Not Consuming Enough Liquids Every Day Can Cause Major Damage to Your Health
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 28, 2008
Subjects: Health
...stimulates the sensation of thirst. The hypothalamus also causes a gland in the brain, the pituitary, to release antidiuretic hormone (ADH), which acts on the kidneys to encourage them to make less urine and reabsorb water into the blood. This...
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Antidiuretic Hormone
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ANTIDIURETIC HORMONE an tediyooret ik, polypeptide hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland . Its principal...regulate the amount of water excreted by the kidneys. Antidiuretic hormone (ADH), known also as vasopressin, causes...
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Hormone
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...where a deficiency exists. The hormones of the anterior pituitary include...thyrotropin , adrenocorticotropic hormone , the gonadotropic hormones , and growth hormone ; the posterior pituitary secretes antidiuretic hormone , prolactin, and oxytocin...
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Endocrine System
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...pituitary secretes at least five hormones that directly affect the...activity, adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), which regulates...and three gonadotropic hormones , follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone...controls growth in all tissues; antidiuretic hormone (ADH), which controls...
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Pituitary Gland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...release of each of the hormones from the anterior lobe...of a specific pituitary hormone. The two hormones that are produced by the...they are released. The hormones are antidiuretic hormone (ADH or vasopressin...
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Oxytocin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OXYTOCIN oksito sin, hormone released from the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland that...year it was synthesized in the laboratory. Both oxytocin and antidiuretic hormone are biosynthesized in the hypothalamus of the brain and travel...
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