NALT

Preferred term

arginine vasopressin

Chemical

The predominant form of mammalian antidiuretic hormone. It is a nonapeptide containing an arginine at residue 8 and two disulfide-linked cysteines at residues of 1 and 6. Arg-vasopressin is used to treat diabetes insipidus or to improve vasomotor tone and blood pressure.

vasopressin

arg-vasopressin

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

59443

Spanish

vasopresina arginina

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/142752

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Created 2/11/11, last modified 11/30/12