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What do antidiuretic hormone regulate?

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It regulates the water balance in the body.

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How does antidiuretic hormone regulate water balance?
It stimulates water channels to be inserted into the collecting tubules in the nephrons that make up the kidney. This increases the kidney's ability to reabsorb water instead of excreting it.
What is antidiuretic hormone?
Antidiuretic hormone (a synthetic peptide identical to the endogenous nonapeptide hormone with antidiuretic property)
Explain how antidiuretic hormone can help regulate hypotension Be specific?
it can help by increasing reabsorption of water by the kidney. With the reabsorption, blood plasma volume increases, thus raising blood pressure
How does antidiuretic hormone regulate fluid intake?
maybe
What hormone regulates rbc formation?
Erythropoietin, produced by the kidneys, signals RBC formation in the red bone marrow