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Pharmacological chaperones in nephrogenic diabetes insipidus: possibilities for clinical application.
BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy - 1 Jan 2007
Robben Joris H, Deen Peter M T
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The antidiuretic hormone arginine-vasopressin regulates water homeostasis in the human body by binding to its vasopressin type 2 receptor (V2R). Mutations in AVPR2, the gene encoding V2R, lead to the X-linked congenital form of nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI), a disease characterized by the...
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