Cultured bovine corneal epithelial cells express a functional aquaporin water channel

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 253-257

  Kang, Fengying ^a   Kuang, Kunyan ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Fischbarg, Jorge ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; AQUAPORIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; HYPOTONIC SOLUTION; MERCURY CHLORIDE; MESSENGER RNA; POLYADENYLATED RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EDEMA; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CULTURE MEDIUM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WATER PERMEABILITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 1; AQUAPORIN 5; AQUAPORINS; CATTLE; CELL SIZE; CELLS, CULTURED; CORNEA; DNA PRIMERS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; OOCYTES; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PERMEABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; WATER; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032937866     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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