Diversity of aquaporin mRNA expressed by rat and human retinas

NeuroReport

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-56

  Tenckhoff, Solveig ^a   Hollborn, Margrit ^a   Kohen, Leon ^a   Wolf, Sebastian ^a   Wiedemann, Peter ^a   Bringmann, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aquaporins; Glia; M ller cell; Potassium channels; Retina; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; AQUAPORIN 1; AQUAPORIN 2; AQUAPORIN 3; AQUAPORIN 4; AQUAPORIN 5; AQUAPORIN 6; AQUAPORIN 7; AQUAPORIN 8; AQUAPORIN 9;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GLIOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MUELLER CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RATS; RETINA; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 13244295350     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200501190-00013     Document Type: Article

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