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“Two percent salt loading for 3 or 4 days significantly … the contents of both arginine vasopressin (AVP) and oxytocin OT ) in the posterior pituitary, and simultaneous treatment with daily injections of N-Arg at a dose of 10 mg/kg significantly enhanced the depletion of both AVP and OT.”
“NG-Monomethyl-L-arginine and N omega-nitro-L-arginine inhibited oxytocin (10 microM) induced cyclic GMP accumulation with IC50 values of 2.3 microM and 140 nM, respectively, and the inhibition was prevented with L-arginine.”