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Evidence for the Identity of Natriferin, the Frog Water-Balance Principle and Arginine Vasotocin

Nature volume 187, pages 1030–1031 (1960)Cite this article

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Maetz, Morel, and Lahlouh1 recently reported that pituitary extracts from amphibians and teleosts contain a principle which promotes the active transport of sodium by the isolated skin of the frog Rana esculenta. This factor cannot be oxytocin or a vasopressin since it has approximately ten times more activity on sodium transport than do mammalian extracts of similar oxytocic activity. Maetz et al. named this principle ‘natriferin’.

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SAWYER, W. Evidence for the Identity of Natriferin, the Frog Water-Balance Principle and Arginine Vasotocin. Nature 187, 1030–1031 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/1871030b0

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