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. 1978 Mar;62(3):370–371. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1978.tb08472.x

Release of vasopressin by enkephalin.

G W Bisset, H S Chowdrey, W Feldberg
PMCID: PMC1668152  PMID: 638316

Abstract

Leu-enkephalin, its stable analogue [D-Ala2-D-Leu5]-enkephalin and the C-fragment of lipotropin (beta endorphin) injected intravenously in the rat produced antidiuretic responses which were inhibited reversibly by naloxone. It was shown for Leu-enkephalin that injection into the cerebral ventricles was at least ten times more effective than intravenous injection and for [D-Ala2-D-Leu5]-enkephalin that the antidiuretic response was associated with increased excretion of vaspressin in the urine.

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