Arginine vasotocin promotes urea permeability through urea transporter expressed in the toad urinary bladder cells

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 281-285

  Konno, Norifumi ^a   Hyodo, Susumu ^b   Matsuda, Kouhei ^a   Uchiyama, Minoru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arginine vasotocin (AVT); Bufo marinus; Urea; Urea transporter (UT); Urinary bladder

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; PHLORETIN; UREA; WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; KIDNEY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TIME; TOAD; XENOPUS;

EID: 34250661849     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2006.12.007     Document Type: Article

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