Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus.

doi:10.1016/s0002-9343(98)00301-5

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Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus.

The American journal of medicine - 1 Nov 1998

Bichet D G

Abstract excerpt

In nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, the kidney is unable to concentrate urine despite normal or elevated concentrations of the antidiuretic hormone arginine vasopressin (AVP). In congenital nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI), the obvious clinical manifestations of the disease, that is polyuria a...

Topics

Aquaporins
Arginine Vasopressin
Diabetes Insipidus, Nephrogenic
GTP-Binding Proteins
Humans
Mutation
Oxytocin
Protein Binding
Protein Structure, Tertiary
Receptors, Vasopressin
Vasopressins

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