Vasopressin and Blood Pressure

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"Unfortunately, the official USP [United States Pharmacopeia] name for the antidiuretic hormone is Vasopressin." So states the 1965 edition of Goodman and Gilman's Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, describing antidiuretic hormone.A great majority of the growing number of physicians who specialize in nephrology would probably have supported the view implied by the adverb, at least before the past decade. (Perhaps they would also wish the official assay to reflect the seminal contributions of Sir Basil Verney, whose sole concern was with antidiuresis.)The reason for the USP name, of course, lay in the standard assay procedure; to assay antidiuretic . . .