Water channel proteins: From their discovery in 1985 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, to the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Cellular and Molecular Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 10-19

  Benga, G H ^a  

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

Author keywords

Aquaporin; Nobel Prize; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Red blood cell; Water channel; Water channel protein; Water transport

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; AQUAPORIN 1; CHLOROMERCURIBENZENESULFONIC ACID; GLYCOSYLATED PROTEIN; INHIBITOR PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; P CHLOROMERCURIBENZENE SULFONIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AWARDS AND PRIZES; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROPHORESIS; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ROMANIA; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT;

AQUAPORINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHEMISTRY; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; NOBEL PRIZE; ROMANIA; WATER;

EID: 34247584977     PISSN: 01455680     EISSN: 1165158X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1170/T744     Document Type: Conference Paper

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