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Vasopressin, also known as arginine vasopressin (AVP), antidiuretic hormone (ADH), or argipressin, is a neurohypophysial hormone found in most mammals.Its two primary functions are to retain water in the body and to constrict blood vessels.asopressin regulates the body's retention of water by acting to increase water reabsorption in the kidney's collecting ducts, the tubules which receive the very dilute urine produced by the functional unit of the kidney, the nephrons.
Several hormones produced elsewhere in the body help to control the function of the kidneys. 1  Antidiuretic hormone (ADH), also known as vasopressin, is a hormone produced by neurosecretory cells in the brainâs hypothalamus. These cells extend into the posterior pituitary, which stores and releases ADH.