VASOPRESSIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vasopressin mean? 

• VASOPRESSIN (noun)
  The noun VASOPRESSIN has 1 sense:

1. hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus; affects blood pressure by stimulating capillary muscles and reduces urine flow by affecting reabsorption of water by kidney tubules

  Familiarity information: VASOPRESSIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VASOPRESSIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus; affects blood pressure by stimulating capillary muscles and reduces urine flow by affecting reabsorption of water by kidney tubules

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

ADH; antidiuretic hormone; Pitressin; vasopressin

Hypernyms ("vasopressin" is a kind of...):

pressor; vasoconstrictive; vasoconstrictor (any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure)

endocrine; hormone; internal secretion (the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect)

 Context examples 

This protein acts as receptor for arginine vasopressin.

(Arginine Vasopressin Receptor 1A, NCI Thesaurus)

Also included are synthetic vasopressin derivatives.

(Argipressin, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

This protein is a precursor protein consisting of arginine vasopressin and two associated proteins, neurophysin II and a glycopeptide, copeptin.

(Arginine Vasopressin-Neurophysin II Preproprotein, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)

Niravoline inhibits the scretion of the the antiduretic hormone vasopressin thereby causing a diuretic effect.

(Niravoline, NCI Thesaurus)

It produces and secretes hormones such as oxytocin and vasopressin, to regulate the activities of the hypothalamus.

(Pituitary gland, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes vasopressin V2 receptor protein, is involved in the maintenance of water homeostasis and G protein-coupled receptor signal transduction.

(AVPR2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Evidence has been building that the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin are involved in social recognition.

(Oxytocin affects facial recognition, NIH)

The neural or post-neural lobe of the pituitary gland which stores and releases vasopressin, oxytocin, and neurophysins.

(Murine Posterior Pituitary Gland, NCI Thesaurus)

Oxycodone also inhibits the release of vasopressin, somatostatin, insulin, and glucagon.

(Oxycodone, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes vasopressin V1a receptor protein, is involved in the mediation of cell contraction and proliferation, platelet aggregation, release of coagulation factor and glycogenolysis.

(AVPR1A wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)