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Radioimmunoassay of vasopressin in familial cental diabetes insipidus.

We examined plasma arginine-vasopressin concentrations by radioimmunoassay in two brothers, aged 6 and 7.5 years, with familial central diabetes insipidus inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. Plasma AVP was measured in relation to increasing plasma osmolality induced by water deprivation and hypertonic saline infusion. The brother with the more severe urinary concentrating defect had no detectable AVP when his plasma osmolality was as high as 306 mOsm/kg; the other brother had detectable but clearly subnormal AVP concentrations. The one brother tested had an apparently normal end-organ response to exogenous vasopressin. Chlorpropamide had a significant antidiuretic effect in the brother with detectable AVP levels, and a lesser effect in the other brother . Our findings suggest that intrafamilial variation in the severity of congenital DI is related to the degree of vasopressin deficiency.[1]

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  1. Radioimmunoassay of vasopressin in familial cental diabetes insipidus. Kaplowitz, P.B., D'Ercole, A.J., Robertson, G.L. J. Pediatr. (1982) [Pubmed]
 
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