Arginine vasopressin or antidiuretic hormone (ADH) is a nonpeptide hormone that is essential for volume homeostasis. It is synthesized in the magnocellular neurosecretory neurons in the paraventricular nucleus and supraoptic nucleus of the hypothalamus and transported down the hypothalamoneurohypophyseal tract to be stored in the posterior pituitary gland. [More…]
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