Foreword to the special issue on water channel proteins (aquaporins and relatives) in health and disease: 25 Years after the discovery of the first water channel protein, later called aquaporin 1

Molecular Aspects of Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 511-513

  Benga, Gheorghe ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a Cluj County Clinical Emergency Hospital   (Romania)

^b VASILE GOLDIS WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF ARAD   (Romania)

^c ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

^d Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences   (Romania)

^e OUTNOBEL Foundation   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; AQUAGLYCEROPORIN; AQUAPORIN; AQUAPORIN 1; AQUAPORIN 2; AQUAPORIN 3; AQUAPORIN 4; AQUAPORIN 4 ANTIBODY; AQUAPORIN 5; AQUAPORIN 6; AQUAPORIN 7; AQUAPORIN 8; AQUAPORIN 9; ASPARAGINE; MEMBRANE INTRINSIC PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROLINE; PROTEIN AQP10; PROTEIN AQP11; PROTEIN AQP12; S AQUAPORIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOGENESIS; AQP0 GENE; AQP1 GENE; AQP2 GENE; AUTISM; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CELL MIGRATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHANNELOPATHY; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEMENTIA; ECLAMPSIA; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ENTEROPATHY; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GLIOMA; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; INAPPROPRIATE VASOPRESSIN SECRETION; INNER EAR DISEASE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE INFERTILITY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MIGRAINE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MYELOOPTIC NEUROPATHY; NEPHROGENIC DIABETES INSIPIDUS; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UREMIA; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; VISUAL DISORDER; WATER PERMEABILITY;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 1; AQUAPORINS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84865505405     PISSN: 00982997     EISSN: 18729452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2012.06.002     Document Type: Review

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