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“The addition of corticotropin-releasing factor or arginine vasopressin, but not of neuropeptide Y, increased the release of immunoreactive oxytocin three- to fourfold from placental cells, with a dose-dependent effect (P < 0.01).”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America • 1996 | View Paper
“ Arginine vasopressin or arginine vasopressin plus oxytocin increased urine osmolality similarly by a factor of 13, decreased urine flow to between 5 and 7% of control and decreased free water clearance.”
“ Arginine vasopressin plus oxytocin led to a pronounced natriuresis (13 +/- 4 to 101 +/- 27 mumol min-1).”