Vasopressin is a peptide hormone that increases water permeability of the kidney's collecting duct and distal convoluted tubule by inducing translocation of aquaporin-CD water channels in the plasma membrane of collecting duct cells. It also increases peripheral vascular resistance, which in turn increases arterial blood pressure.
The Eagle Has Landed: Book Review. The Eagle Has Landed was written by Jack Higgins and published in 1975. It is generally regarded as a classic of the spy thriller genre. The Eagle Has Landed: Logline . During World War Two, a unit of German paratroopers and an Irish revolutionary infiltrate England to try to kidnap Churchill.
The man who discovered flight (and his name isn't Wright) A few years ago, Richard Dee, a post-doctoral fellow at York University who studies the effects of prolonged bouts of zero gravity on astronauts for NASA, wrote a book. It detailed the parallel lives of two innovative â and ill-fated â aircraft: the Avro Arrow in Canada and the TSR2 in his native U.K.