Aquaporin-8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the AQP8 gene. Aquaporin-8 (AQP-8) is a water channel protein. Aquaporins are a family of small...
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Aquaporins, also called water channels, are channel proteins from a larger family of major intrinsic proteins that form pores in the membrane of biological...
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Aquaporin-4, also known as AQP-4, is a water channel protein encoded by the AQP4 gene in humans. AQP-4 belongs to the aquaporin family of integral membrane...
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Aquaporin 3 (AQP-3) is the protein product of the human AQP3 gene. It is found in the basolateral cell membrane of principal collecting duct cells and...
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Aquaporin-2 (AQP-2) is found in the apical cell membranes of the kidney's collecting duct principal cells and in intracellular vesicles located throughout...
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Aquaporin-5 (AQP-5) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the AQP5 gene. Aquaporin-5 (AQP-5) is a water channel protein. Aquaporins are a family of...
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Aquaporin 1 (AQP-1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the AQP1 gene. AQP-1 is a widely expressed water channel, whose physiological function has...
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Aquaporin-9 (AQP-9) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the AQP9 gene. The aquaporins/major intrinsic protein are a family of water-selective membrane...
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than 80% of NMO cases, the cause is immunoglobulin G autoantibodies to aquaporin 4 (anti-AQP4), the most abundant water channel protein in the central...
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Aquaporin-6, (AQP-6) also known as kidney-specific aquaporin is a protein in humans that is encoded by the AQP6 gene. The protein encoded by this gene...
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Aquaporin-7 (AQP-7) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the AQP7 gene. Aquaporins/major intrinsic proteins (MIP) are a family of water-selective...
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Major intrinsic proteins (section Aquaporin)
MIP superfamily includes three subfamilies: aquaporins, aquaglyceroporins and S-aquaporins. The aquaporins (AQPs) are water selective. The aquaglyceroporins...
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Desmopressin (redirect from 1-desamino-8-D-arginine vasopressin)
translocation of aquaporin channels via cytosolic vesicles to the apical membrane of the collecting duct. The presence of these aquaporin channels in the...
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the area of the retina which provides finer detail and central vision. Aquaporin 4 in Müller cells in rats transports water to the vitreous body. The vitreous...
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accomplished through convective bulk flow of ISF, facilitated by astrocytic aquaporin 4 (AQP4) water channels. The name "glymphatic system" was coined by the...
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cAMP, also increases transcription of the aquaporin-2 gene, thus increasing the total number of aquaporin-2 molecules in collecting duct cells. Increasing...
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monomers can assemble to form the aquaporin proteins. As four of these monomers come together to form the aquaporin protein, it is known as a homotetramer...
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Nav1.8 is a sodium ion channel subtype that in humans is encoded by the SCN10A gene. Nav1.8-containing channels are tetrodotoxin (TTX)-resistant voltage-gated...
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(May 2001). "Physiology and pathophysiology of renal aquaporins". Seminars in Nephrology. 21 (3): 231–8. doi:10.1053/snep.2001.21647. PMID 11320486. [needs...
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convoluted tubules; specifically, it acts on proteins called aquaporins and more specifically aquaporin 2 in the following cascade. When released, ADH binds to...
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been described in some patients with NMOSD who were negative for the aquaporin 4 (AQP-4) antibody. However, most NMOSD is an astrocytopathy, specifically...
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called aquaporin-1 which is responsible for water homeostasis and urine concentration. The Co antigen is important in transfusion medicine. 99.8% of people...
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(March 2016). "Antibodies to myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein in aquaporin 4 antibody seronegative longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis:...
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Peter Agre (section Aquaporins)
cell membranes." Agre was recognized for his discovery of aquaporin water channels. Aquaporins are water-channel proteins that move water molecules through...
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expressed in proximal tubules, calbindin expressed in distal tubules and aquaporin 2 expressed in the collecting duct cells. The mammalian kidney develops...
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microdomains in the cell’s plasma membrane. Through channels such as aquaporin or diffusion, hydrogen peroxide enters the cytosol. There, it oxidises...
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diseases, are a group of diseases characterized by auto-antibodies against aquaporin 4. After the discovery of anti-AQP4 autoantibody in neuromyelitis optica...
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disorder (NMOSD) in adults with a particular antibody (patients who are anti-aquaporin-4 or AQP4 antibody positive). Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder is...
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collecting duct and distal convoluted tubule by inducing translocation of aquaporin-CD water channels in the kidney nephron collecting duct plasma membrane...
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concentrated urine, via a process apparently associated with expression of aquaporin 1 along a longer than usual segment of the descending limb of the loop...
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