Localization and regulation of a facilitative urea transporter in the kidney of the red-eared slider turtle (Trachemys scripta elegans)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 249-256

  Uchiyama, Minoru ^a   Kikuchi, Ryosuke ^a   Konno, Norifumi ^a   Wakasugi, Tatsuya ^a   Matsuda, Kouhei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cloning; Kidney; Osmoregulation; Turtle; Urea transporter (UT)

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; UREA; UREA TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DESICCATION; DIFFUSION; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; KIDNEY; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PLASMA; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DESICCATION; FACILITATED DIFFUSION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PLASMA; RNA, MESSENGER; TURTLES; UREA; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

REPTILIA; TESTUDINES; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA ELEGANS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 58149358978     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.019703     Document Type: Article

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