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Effects of aging on vasopressin production in a kindred with autosomal dominant neurohypophyseal diabetes insipidus due to the DeltaE47 neurophysin mutation.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Feb 2002
Mahoney C Patrick, Weinberger Edward, Bryant Charles, Ito Mika, Jameson J Larry, Ito Masafumi
Abstract excerpt
Postmortem examinations of the hypothalamus of patients with autosomal dominant neurohypophyseal diabetes insipidus (adNDI), which have been reported only on persons dying between the ages of 37-87 yr, reveal the presence of the arginine vasopressin (AVP)-producing parvocellular neurons but the absence of 95% of the expected AVP-producing magnocellular neurons. To determine whether the clinical course of adNDI is...
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