ea0063gp241 | Anterior and Posterior Pituitary | ECE2019
Sailer Clara O
, Wiedemann Sophia
, Fenske Wiebke K
, Schnyder Ingeborg
, Strauss Konrad
, Christ-Crain Mirjam
Context: Osmotic stimulus or stress results in release of vasopressin. Animal studies have shown that inflammatory parameters such as interleukin-6 (IL-6) and interleukin-8 (IL-8) increase in parallel, mainly in central brain regions. Whether osmotic stimulation leads to an inflammatory response in humans is unknown. We therefore investigated the influence of osmotic stimulation on the inflammatory system in healthy volunteers.Method: In this prospective...