Essays Tagged: "Vasopressin"

Steroid and non-steroid hormones differ in how they affect target cells. Describe the mechanisms involved using specific examples of each. How is it that hormones affect some cells and not others?

d hormones include choleckystokinin, epinephrine, dopamine, insulin, norepinephrine, serotonin, and vasopressin.Steroid hormones, like estrogen, directly affect gene expression in their target cells. ...

(1 pages) 28429 2 3.8 Jan/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Diabetes Types 1 and 2 thoroughly explained

es mellitus differs from the less common Diabetes insipidus, which is caused by lack of the hormone vasopressin that controls the amount of urine secreted. In Diabetes mellitus, without an appropriate ...

(5 pages) 193 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

To find out if there is a relationship between fluid intake and urine output, by measuring my daily fluid intakes and urine outputs.

s to 60% of all water output. This process is influenced by antidiuretic hormone (ADH), also called vasopressin, which is produced in the hypothalamus (a part of the brain that regulates many internal ...

(12 pages) 34 0 0.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Cotton gin

tion of estrogens/progesterone; mild productionPositiveAntidiuretic hormone (ADH) Or Arginine vasopressin (AVP)Rise in the osmolarity of the blood and a decrease in blood volumeExocytosis; ...

(2 pages) 0 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

case of diabetes insipidu

er commons causes are: 9. DDVAP is a synthetic analogue of the natural pituitary hormone 8-arginine vasopressin (ADH), an antidiuretic hormone affecting renal water conservation. It is indicated for p ... ry to a condition in the pituitary, which if left without treatment, can develop complications. 11. Vasopressin: A relatively small (peptide) molecule that is released by the pituitary gland at the ba ...

(2 pages) 1 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases