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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 28.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Crit Care. 2008 Dec;14(6):627–634. doi: 10.1097/MCC.0b013e32830e45e3

Figure 1. Nonosmotic arginine vasopressin secretion during arterial underfilling.

Figure 1

Nonosmotic, baroreceptor-mediated release of arginine vasopressin occurs due to arterial underfilling secondary to either a decrease in cardiac output (a) or primary arterial vasodilation (b). AVP, arginine vasopressin; RAAS, rennin-angiotensin-aldosterone system; SNS, sympathetic nervous system. Adapted with permission [7,8].