Article
The aquaporin family of water channel proteins in clinical medicine.
Medicine - 1 May 1997
Lee M D, King L S, Agre P
Abstract excerpt
The aquaporins are a family of membrane channel proteins that serve as selective pores through which water crosses the plasma membranes of many human tissues and cell types. The sites where aquaporins are expressed implicate these proteins in renal water reabsorption, cerebrospinal fluid secretio...
Topics
- Animals
- Brain
- Clinical Medicine
- Eye
- Humans
- Ion Channels
- Lung
- Mutation
- Tissue Distribution
- Water