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Pathophysiology of copeptin in kidney disease and hypertension
Copeptin is derived from the cleavage of the precursor of arginine vasopressin (AVP), produced in an equimolar ratio in hypothalamus and processed during axonal transport AVP is an unstable peptide and has a short half-life of 5–20 min. Unlike AVP, copeptin is a stable molecule and can easily be mea...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5469179/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28638629 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40885-017-0068-y |