... 12 1999 The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society © 2000 2000 antidiuretic hormone arginine vasopressin hypercalcaemia hypercalciuria loop of Henle nephrogenic diabetes insipidus polyuria urine osmolality water 313Clinical Science (2000) 98, 313 319 (Printed...

...Gerald C. Kaye; Peter Bayliss; Philip J. Lowry; P. L. Drury; A. John Camm 1. A symptomatic diuresis, polyuria, sometimes accompanies paroxysmal tachycardias in man. A study was undertaken in patients with inducible supraventricular tachycardia, irrespective of the symptom of polyuria, to measure...

... of 0.9% (w/v) NaCl, were used as controls. The cisplatin-treated rats developed a pronounced polyuria which did not recover during an 18 week observation period. 2. After 21 weeks, one group of the cisplatin-treated animals received a 6 h infusion of 2.5% d -glucose. Vasopressin (60 μ-units min −1 100 g...

... taking lithium (the lithium group), seven manic-depressive patients taking other psychotropic drugs but not lithium (the other drug group), seven healthy subjects (the control group) and three lithium-treated patients with polyuria (the polyuric lithium group). 2. The lithium group had a resistance...

...G. W. Bisset; Angela Black; P. J. Hilton; N. F. Jones; Margaret Montgomery 1. A patient with polyuria in whom diabetes insipidus had been diagnosed was treated with Pitressin. Resistance to this therapy developed after 18 months and a circulating antibody to vasopressin was then demonstrated...