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Identification of a Vasopressin-Neurophysin and of an Oxytocin-Neurophysin in Man
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1973
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NeuroendocrinologyAdrenal GlandPituitary GlandNeuroendocrine MechanismHealth SciencesEctopic Hormone SecretionNormal Human NeurohypophysisNervous SystemEndocrinologyBiologyNeurophysiologyNeuroanatomyPhysiologyNeuroendocrine DisorderNeurophysin IiNeuroscienceCentral Nervous SystemMedicineNeuropeptides
There is a specific association of vasopressin with neurophysin I and of oxytocin with what is presumably neurophysin II within the normal human neurohypophysis. Such a specificity is preserved in tumors producing ectopic hormone secretion.