The water-absorption region of ventral skin of several semiterrestrial and aquatic anuran amphibians identified by aquaporins

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 299, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Ogushi, Yuji ^a   Tsuzuki, Azumi ^a   Sato, Megumi ^a   Mochida, Hiroshi ^b   Okada, Reiko ^a   Suzuki, Masakazu ^a   Hillyard, Stanley D ^c   Tanaka, Shigeyasu ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Protein Purify Company   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arginine vasotocin; Frogs; Hindlimb skin; Immunohistochemistry; Water permeability

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; ARGIPRESTOCIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROG; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PECTORAL MUSCLE; PELVIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN ABSORPTION; TOAD; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER PERMEABILITY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANURA; AQUAPORIN 2; AQUAPORIN 3; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BUFONIDAE; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PELVIS; PERMEABILITY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RANIDAE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN; SKIN ABSORPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VASOTOCIN; WATER; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 78149472221     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00320.2010     Document Type: Article

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