“…Through ionic mechanisms presented herein, it or other structurally similar non-peptide compounds that can be preferentially used for oral intake, is able to influence the functional activities of endocrine or renal tubular cells, if similar findings occur in vivo . Our findings also highlight an important alternative aspect that needs to be taken into account, inasmuch as the aquaretic effects of TLV in different pathologic disorders including polycystic kidney disease, cirrhosis or heart failure, are evaluated (Ghali et al, 2009; Graziani et al, 2012; Mancinelli et al, 2016; Clark et al, 2017; Sweeney and Avner, 2017; (Torres et al, 2017; van Gastel and Torres, 2017; Wu et al, 2017a; Chebib et al, 2018; Edwards et al, 2018; Imamura and Kinugawa, 2018; Matsukawa et al, 2018; McEwan et al, 2018; Müller et al, 2018; Oguro et al, 2018b; Poch et al, 2018; Sen et al, 2018; Takimura et al, 2018).…”