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Generation and phenotypic analysis of mice lacking all urea transporters.
Kidney international - 1 Feb 2017
Jiang Tao, Li Yingjie, Layton Anita T, Wang Weiling, Sun Yi, Li Min, Zhou Hong, Yang Baoxue
Abstract excerpt
Urea transporters (UT) are a family of transmembrane urea-selective channel proteins expressed in multiple tissues and play an important role in the urine concentrating mechanism of the mammalian kidney. UT inhibitors have diuretic activity and could be developed as novel diuretics. To determine if functional deficiency of all UTs in all tissues causes physiological abnormality, we established a novel mouse model...
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