Water channel proteins: From their discovery in Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 1985, to the 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry and their implications in molecular medicine

Keio Journal of Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 64-69

  Benga, Gheorghe ^a  

^a IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Aquaporins; Membranes; Red blood cell; Water channel proteins; Water channels

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ROMANIA; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 33745923789     PISSN: 00229717     EISSN: 00229717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2302/kjm.55.64     Document Type: Note

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