Aquaporins: Highways for cells to recycle water with the outside world

Biology of the Cell

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 351-353

  Calamita, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; CAVEOLIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ESTROGEN; GLYCEROL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SECRETIN; VASOPRESSIN; WATER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOOD GROUP RHESUS SYSTEM; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CELL TYPE; DATA BASE; DIFFUSION; DRUG TARGETING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERNET; LIPID BILAYER; MICROORGANISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OSMOLARITY; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; DIFFUSION; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; LIPID BILAYERS; WATER;

EID: 21044447009     PISSN: 02484900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BC20050017     Document Type: Editorial

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