Mammalian Urea Transporters

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 65, Issue , 2003, Pages 543-566

  Sands, Jeff M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Erythrocytes; Glucocorticoids; Kidney; Urine concentrating mechanism; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DOXORUBICIN; MESSENGER RNA; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN UT A1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA DERIVATIVE; UT A UREA; VASOPRESSIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UREA TRANSPORTER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APICAL MEMBRANE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CODE; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ION TRANSPORT; KIDNEY COLLECTING TUBULE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; POLYCLONAL ACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEINURIA; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; TESTIS FUNCTION; UNTRANSLATED REGION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CONCENTRATING CAPACITY; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CONCENTRATING ABILITY; MAMMALS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0037974519     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.65.092101.142638     Document Type: Review

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