Gene cloning and expression of an aquaporin (AQP-h3BL) in the basolateral membrane of water-permeable epithelial cells in osmoregulatory organs of the tree frog

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 292, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Akabane, Gen ^a   Ogushi, Yuji ^a   Hasegawa, Takahiro ^a   Suzuki, Masakazu ^a   Tanaka, Shigeyasu ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anuran amphibian; Arginine vasotocin; Immunocytochemistry; Kidney; Mucous gland; Skin; Urinary bladder

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AQUAPORIN; ARGIPRESTOCIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; GLYCEROL; MERCURY CHLORIDE; WATER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL MEMBRANE; BLADDER; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EPITHELIUM CELL; FROG; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULAR CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KIDNEY DISTAL TUBULE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OSMOREGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SECRETORY CELL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN; WATER PERMEABILITY; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RANIDAE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; WATER; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 34447504997     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00905.2006     Document Type: Article

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