Water channels in chondrocyte function: Another 'unexpected' role of aquaporins

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-

  Hu, Jie ^a   Song, Yuanlin ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; AQUAPORIN 1; AQUAPORIN 3; AQUAPORIN 9; BICARBONATE; SCLEROPROTEIN;

BONE; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHONDROGENESIS; EDITORIAL; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; OSTEOCLAST; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 1; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHONDROCYTES; CHONDROGENESIS; COLLAGEN TYPE II; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; RNA, MESSENGER; WATER;

EID: 36649031614     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2007.04828.x     Document Type: Editorial

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