arginine vasotocin
Expression of hypothalamic arginine vasotocin gene in response to water deprivation and sex steroid administration in female Japanese quail
... Arginine vasotocin (AVT) is a neurohypophyseal hormone involved in reproductive function and control of osmoregulation in ...immunoreactive vasotocin (ir-AVT) neurons and hybridization signals (in ...
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Arginine vasotocin in ovine fetal blood, urine, and amniotic fluid
... Arginine vasotocin ([8-arginine]-oxytocin) (AVT), the primary antidiuretic principle in submammalian vertebrates, has been reported to be present in mammalian pituitary and pineal ...with ...
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Cardiovascular effects of arginine vasotocin in the rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss
... Effects of 6.7 pmol kg−1 body mass min−1 arginine vasotocin infusion on unstressed blood volume and vascular compliance in rainbow trout in vivo 80–100 %.. VUSB, unstressed blood volume;[r] ...
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Arginine vasotocin, steroid hormones and social behavior in the green anole lizard (Anolis carolinensis)
... Arginine vasotocin (AVT) is a potent regulator of social behavior in many species, but little is known about its role in reptilian behavior. Here we examine the effect of exogenous AVT on aggressive ...
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Arginine Vasotocin Modulates a Sexually Dimorphic Communication Behavior in the Weakly Electric fish APTERONOTUS LEPTORHYNCHUS
... of arginine vasotocin on chirp behavior, 42 experimental periods were used; 21 stimulus presentations of −12 Hz were interleaved with 21 DF stimuli at −4 ...plus arginine vasotocin (Sigma, St ...
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Renal function and plasma levels of arginine vasotocin during free flight in pigeons
... Kidney function Consistent with the reduction in body mass, the increase in plasma osmolality and the elevation of plasma AVT level, fractional water reabsorption showed a tendency to be[r] ...
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Renal Responses to Continuous and Short Pulse Infusion of Arginine Vasotocin in the Toad Bufo Marinus
... The following experiments were undertaken to establish the effects of doserelated single bolus injections, and long-term continuous infusion and periodic bolus injections, of the neurope[r] ...
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Effects of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone and arginine-vasotocin on the sperm-release response of Günther's Toadlet, Pseudophryne guentheri
... To address the lack of dose-response data and to investigate the possible synergy of simultaneous admin- istration of LHRHa and AVT, this study used the Wes- tern Australian anuran Pseud[r] ...
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Micropuncture study of the renal responses of the urodele amphibian Necturus maculosus to injections of arginine vasotocin and an anti aldosterone compound
... Pfi, Pg, plasma sodium and potassium concentrations m ~ Pa ; total, total plasma calcium and Pa dial, dialysable calcium m ~ Po.,, ; plasma osmolarity , of osmotically free water pl/m[r] ...
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Suppression of sensory to motor synaptic transmission and narrowing of the sensory neurone action potential by arginine vasotocin in Aplysia californica
... In the semi-intact preparation, superfusion of AVT 10~ 6 moll~' over the abdominal ganglion decreased the amplitude of both the gill withdrawal reflex and the short-latency excitatory po[r] ...
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Identification of neurohypophysial hormones with their antisera
... inactivates arginine-vasopressin and lysine-vasopressin, but neither oxytocin nor arginine-vasotocin; (b) an identifiable antigenic site exists for each hormone; (c) relatively specific ...
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Vasotocin and isotocin regulate aquaporin 1 function in the sea bream
... peptides arginine vasotocin (AVT) and isotocin (IT), have been associated with the regulation of blood pressure and antidiuretic functions in osmoregulation (Amer and Brown, 1995; Henderson and Wales, 1974; ...
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Correlation between aquaporin and water permeability in response to vasotocin, hydrin and β adrenergic effectors in the ventral pelvic skin of the tree frog Hyla japonica
... Anuran amphibians are adapted to living in a diverse range of water environments. A general classification of anurans according to habitat distinguishes four groups, i.e. aquatic, semi-aquatic, terrestrial and arboreal ...
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African lungfish, Protopterus annectens, possess an arginine vasotocin receptor homologous to the tetrapod V2 type receptor
... hormones, arginine vasopressin (AVP) and its counterpart arginine vasotocin (AVT), play a pivotal role in an antidiuretic action crucial for water conservation in the kidney of terrestrial ...
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Mitochondrial arginine kinase in the midgut of the tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta)
... maintaining a low [ATP]/[ADP] ratio in the vicinity of the adenine nucleotide translocase. Doumen and Ellington (1990b) have argued that functional coupling of AK and the adenine nucleotide translocase is not an absolute ...
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Protein energy malnutrition increases arginase activity in monocytes and macrophages
... neutrophils constitutively express arginase (reviewed in [13]). There are two isoforms of arginase in mammals, arginase I and arginase II [14,15]. The catabolism of L-arginine by arginase can regulate the ...
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Effect of chronic hyperglycemia on in vivo insulin secretion in partially pancreatectomized rats
... to arginine (2 mM), hyperglycemia (+100 mg/dl), and arginine plus hyperglycemia was ...of arginine under basal glycemic conditions; and (c) an inability of hyperglycemia to augment the potentiating ...
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FIRST DESCRIPTION OF ARGININE CATABOLIC MOVILE ELEMENT (ACME) TYPE VI HARBORING THE kdp OPERON ONLY IN Staphylococcus epidermidis USING SHORT AND LONG READ WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING: FURTHER EVIDENCE OF ACME DIVERSITY
... Genetic diversity of arginine catabolic mobile element in Staphylococcus epidermidis... First description of novel arginine.[r] ...
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Mutants of escherichia coli with abnormal patterns of repression of arginine biosynthetic enzymes : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Microbiology at Massey University
... 37QC Hours "The Effect of Arginine Concentration on Pacesetting of Strain W2-250." Key: 1.* growth of cultures 2 to 6 prdlor to ea:haustion of arginine 3 2.= Control: 30ug/cm arginine on[r] ...
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4-23-2014 12:00 AM The role of the arginine methyltransferase CARM1 in global transcriptional regulation.
... Protein Arginine Methyltransferase (PRMT) family is responsible for histone arginine methylation, and also uses SAM as a ...at arginine 2 (H3R2) and histone H4 arginine 3 (H4R3) ...‘true’ ...
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