Generation and phenotype of a transgenic knockout mouse lacking the mercurial-insensitive water channel aquaporin-4

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 957-962

  Ma, Tonghui ^a   Yang, Baoxue ^a   Gillespie, Annemarie ^a   Carlson, Elaine J ^a   Epstein, Charles J ^a   Verkman, A S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AQP4; Aquaporin; Mercurial insensitive water channel; Urinary concentration; Water transport

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 0030955183     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI231     Document Type: Article

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