Abstract：
:To quantify the renal excretion of arginine vasotocin (AVT) in birds, synthetic AVT was infused into conscious Pekin ducks at rates of 0.03, 0.10, and 0.30 ng/kg/min for 30 min and the relationships between plasma and urine AVT concentrations were monitored by radioimmunoassay. As plasma AVT concentrations increased (from a basal value of 7.8 +/- 1.1 pg/ml to levels of 11.5 +/- 1.9, 17.6 +/- 2.2, and 24.2 +/- 2.5 pg/ml, respectively) the urinary concentrations and excretion rates increased linearly from basal levels of 26.0 +/- 3.1 pg/ml and 14.9 +/- 1.8 pg/min to 215.6 +/- 36.6 pg/ml and 39.2 +/- 3.7 pg/min, respectively. The metabolic clearance rate of AVT (approximately 23 ml/min/kg) and urinary clearance (approximately 0.91 ml/min/kg) remained constant at each infusion dose and were therefore independent of plasma AVT levels. Over the range of plasma AVT concentrations tested, a constant fraction of about 5% of the AVT cleared from the blood was excreted intact in the urine.
journal_name
Gen Comp Endocrinoljournal_title
General and comparative endocrinologyauthors
Gray DAdoi
10.1006/gcen.1995.1090subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1995-07-01 00:00:00pages
108-13issue
1eissn
0016-6480issn
1095-6840pii
S0016-6480(85)71090-8journal_volume
99pub_type
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0016-6480(92)90059-s
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
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doi：10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.12.005
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.06.014
更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/gcen.2000.7492
更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.ygcen.2019.04.008
更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0016-6480(87)90026-8
更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.ygcen.2004.05.010
更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.ygcen.2005.12.010
更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.ygcen.2016.08.011
更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0016-6480(90)90098-7
更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/gcen.1998.7076
更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0016-6480(02)00562-2
更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.ygcen.2009.12.010
更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0016-6480(84)90124-2
更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.ygcen.2016.03.028
更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/gcen.1996.0013
更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.01.026
更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.ygcen.2017.09.015
更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.05.023
更新日期：2013-09-15 00:00:00
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/gcen.2001.7621
更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ygcen.2015.01.025
更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0016-6480(03)00216-8
更新日期：2003-10-15 00:00:00
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/gcen.1994.1055
更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/gcen.2000.7599
更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Testosterone has been suggested to be involved in the regulation of male territorial behavior. For example, seasonal peaks in testosterone typically coincide with periods of intense competition between males for territories and mating partners. However, some species also express territorial behavior outside a breeding...
journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.ygcen.2012.11.027
更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Neurohypophysial hormones in mammals are synthesized by the ovary and may influence reproductive function. Although arginine vasotocin (AVT) can induce premature oviposition in chickens, the gonadal content of AVT or mesotocin (MT) has not been examined in this species. Ovarian follicles were removed 2 hr before ovipo...
journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0016-6480(90)90087-3
更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.ygcen.2019.02.002
更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone (GnIH) is a hypothalamic neuropeptide that was isolated from the brains of Japanese quail in 2000, which inhibited luteinizing hormone release from the anterior pituitary gland. Here, we summarize the following fifteen years of researches that investigated on the mechanism of GnIH actio...
journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.ygcen.2015.09.009
更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25(OH)2D3), the hormonally active metabolite of vitamin D3 interacts with its nuclear/cytosolic receptor to induce biological responses in target tissues. Naked mole rats appear to be naturally deficient in vitamin D. The questions arise whether these animals possess the 1,25(OH)2D3 recepto...
journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/gcen.1993.1089
更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Thyroid-dependent stomach development occurs between approximately 35 and 50 days post-hatch (dph) in laboratory-reared summer flounder larvae. The process can be blocked by thiourea (TU), and TU effects are reversed by exogenous thyroxine (T4). To establish whether a window of sensitivity exists for T4-dependent gast...
journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0016-6480(03)00262-4
更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00
