Functions of water channels in male and female reproductive systems

Molecular Aspects of Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 676-690

  Zhang, Dan ^a,b   Tan, Ya Jing ^b,c   Qu, Fan ^a,b   Sheng, Jian Zhong ^b,c   Huang, He Feng ^a,b  

^a Zhejiang University School of Medicine   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Endocrinology; Reproductive system; Water channel protein

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; AQUAPORIN 0; AQUAPORIN 1; AQUAPORIN 10; AQUAPORIN 11; AQUAPORIN 2; AQUAPORIN 3; AQUAPORIN 4; AQUAPORIN 5; AQUAPORIN 7; AQUAPORIN 8; AQUAPORIN 9; CYCLIC AMP; MESSENGER RNA; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARCINOGENESIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FETUS MEMBRANE; FLUID BALANCE; HUMAN; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVIDUCT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERUS; VAGINA; VAS DEFERENS; WART VIRUS;

AQUAPORINS; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; GONADS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MALE; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; REPRODUCTION; WATER;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84865475778     PISSN: 00982997     EISSN: 18729452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2012.02.002     Document Type: Review

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