Email this article A New Functional Role of Oxytocin: Participation in Osmoregulation
- Authors: Natochin Y.V.1, Golosova D.V.1, Shakhmatova E.I.1
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Affiliations:
- Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry
- Issue: Vol 479, No 1 (2018)
- Pages: 60-63
- Section: Physiology
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0012-4966/article/view/154247
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496618020096
- ID: 154247
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Abstract
After a water load in rats hyperhydration occurs and the secretion of oxytocin increases by the neurohypophysis. This increases the water diuresis, the water is quickly excreted by the kidney, and the recovery of osmotic homeostasis is accelerated.
About the authors
Yu. V. Natochin
Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry
Author for correspondence.
Email: natochin1@mail.ru
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg
D. V. Golosova
Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry
Email: natochin1@mail.ru
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg
E. I. Shakhmatova
Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry
Email: natochin1@mail.ru
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg
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