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  • Title: A radioimmunoassay for the determination of arginine vasotocin (AVT): plasma and pituitary concentrations in fresh- and seawater fish.
    Author: Warne JM, Hazon N, Rankin JC, Balment RJ.
    Journal: Gen Comp Endocrinol; 1994 Dec; 96(3):438-44. PubMed ID: 7883151.
    Abstract:
    A specific radioimmunoassay was developed and characterized for the measurement of arginine vasotocin (AVT) in teleost fish. Specificity of the antibody for AVT was demonstrated by parallelism of a series of AVT standards with serially diluted pituitary and plasma extracts. Crossreactivity of the antibody with the other teleost neurohypophysial peptide, isotocin, was less than 1% and the sensitivity of the assay was 0.24 fmol/assay tube. AVT was extracted from plasma by reverse-phase liquid chromatography [efficiency of 87.6 +/- 9.3% (n = 5)] and demonstrated as an effective procedure for plasma volumes ranging from 0.4 to 1.2 ml. Plasma AVT concentrations measured in a range of euryhaline and stenohaline teleost fish were between 10(-12) and 2 x 10(-11) M (1-20 pg/ml). There were no consistent differences between plasma AVT levels in euryhaline fish (flounder, trout, and eel) adapted to fresh water (FW) and sea water (SW). In flounder, pituitary AVT levels in FW- and SW-adapted fish were also similar.
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