Word: pitressin
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...loss of pain or even discomfort. Some who had been resigned to an early death have begun virtually new lives after hypophysectomy controlled the recurrence or spread of colonizing cancers. Maintenance medication is simple: regular tablets of cortisone and thyroid hormone suffice for most; one in four also needs pitressin (to control water balance), which is taken like snuff...
...John Quintin Griffith Jr., and colleagues at Penn's Medical School clinic, discovered several years ago that the blood serum of some patients with high blood pressure contained a pituitary hormone which slows up the secretion of urine. A synthetic preparation of the hormone, called pitressin, was found to have a peculiar property: injected into a patient, it reduces urine secretion at first, but after a few days increases...
...Griffith's explanation: pitressin may stimulate the body to produce an antihormone which neutralizes the hormone responsible for urine suppression and high blood pressure. As a test, he gave pitressin injections to 63 patients for several months. Result: half his patients improved; in some, blood pressure dropped to normal, stayed normal after injections stopped...
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