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Arginine vasopressin neuronal loss results from autophagy-associated cell death in a mouse model for familial neurohypophysial diabetes insipidus.
Cell death & disease - 27 Mar 2014
Hagiwara D, Arima H, Morishita Y, Wenjun L, Azuma Y, Ito Y, Suga H, Goto M, Banno R, Sugimura Y, Shiota A, Asai N, Takahashi M, Oiso Y
Abstract excerpt
Familial neurohypophysial diabetes insipidus (FNDI) characterized by progressive polyuria is mostly caused by mutations in the gene encoding neurophysin II (NPII), which is the carrier protein of the antidiuretic hormone, arginine vasopressin (AVP). Although accumulation of mutant NPII in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) could be toxic for AVP neurons, the precise mechanisms of cell death of AVP neurons, reported...
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