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Identification, characterization and rescue of a novel vasopressin-2 receptor mutation causing nephrogenic diabetes insipidus.
Clinical endocrinology - 1 Sept 2009
Ranadive Sayali A, Ersoy Baran, Favre Helene, Cheung Clement C, Rosenthal Stephen M, Miller Walter L, Vaisse Christian
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: X-linked nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (XNDI), caused by mutations in the V2 vasopressin receptor (V2R), is clinically distinguished from central diabetes insipidus (CDI) by elevated serum vasopressin (AVP) levels and unresponsiveness to 1-desamino-8-d-arginine vasopressin (DDAVP). We report two infants with XNDI, and present the characterization and functional rescue of a novel V2R mutation....
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