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NKCC1: Newly Found as a Human Disease-Causing Ion Transporter.
Function (Oxford, England) - 1 Jan 2021
Koumangoye Rainelli, Bastarache Lisa, Delpire Eric
Abstract excerpt
Among the electroneutral Na+-dependent chloride transporters, NKCC1 had until now evaded identification as a protein causing human diseases. The closely related SLC12A transporters, NKCC2 and NCC have been identified some 25 years ago as responsible for Bartter and Gitelman syndromes: two renal-dependent salt wasting disorders. Absence of disease was most surprising since the NKCC1 knockout mouse was shown in...
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