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Vasopressin receptor mutations causing nephrogenic diabetes insipidus.
Proceedings of the Association of American Physicians - 1 Jan 2000
Bichet D G, Turner M, Morin D
Abstract excerpt
In congenital nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, the renal collecting ducts are resistant to the antidiuretic action of arginine vasopressin or to its antidiuretic analog 1-deamino[8-D-arginine] vasopressin (dDAVP). This is a rare, but now well described entity secondary to either mutations in the AVPR2 gene that codes for the vasopressin antidiuretic (V2) receptor or to mutations in the AQP2 gene that codes for the...
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