Sentences with phrase «aquaporins in»

But research supports the use of ceramides and aquaporins in moisturizers.

And the work of Landon King, who is the director of the pulmonary and critical care medicine program at Johns Hopkins now; when Landon was a fellow in our laboratory, he discovered that in fact glucocorticoids, corticosteroids induce regulation expression of the aquaporins in the microvasculature of the lung.

So we went after this, and now of course that protein is known as aquaporin 1, the first defined water channel; a large family of hundreds of different water channels and different organisms — these green plants around us here have aquaporins in their rootlets.

«Dr Burton's work is groundbreaking because it clarifies the roles of aquaporins in the brain during the short and long - term responses to traumatic head injury.

Not exact matches

Mutations in aquaporin - 1 in phenotypically normal humans without functional CHIP water channels

From a desire to develop breakthrough technologies for water filtration and purification, researchers have developed membranes with artificial channels inspired by the proteins that form the pores in biological membranes: aquaporins.

It has been understood for several years that, in patients suffering from this disease, immune cells attack the aquaporin - 4 water channel of the brain cells.

Aquaporins are important in physiological processes such as kidney concentration and spinal fluid secretion, and play a role in several diseases as well.

«About the year 2000, after we'd worked on aquaporins for almost a decade, we'd answered the questions we felt were most important,» Agre said in an interview in July at the Euroscience Open Forum meeting in Turin, Italy.

Aquaporins have long been known to act as pores by transporting water across membranes in plants and animals, and they play critical roles in controlling the water content of cells.

Aquaporin - 4 deletion in mice reduces brain edema after acute water intoxication and ischemic stroke.

Laminar - specific and developmental expression of aquaporin - 4 in the mouse hippocampus.

Decreased expression of the glial water channel aquaporin - 4 in the intrahippocampal kainic acid model of epileptogenesis.

Functional Expression of Aquaporin - 2 Tagged with Photoconvertible Fluorescent Protein in mpkCCD Cells.

Specialized membrane domains for water transport in glial cells: high - resolution immunogold cytochemistry of aquaporin - 4 in rat brain.

Enhanced expression of aquaporin 4 in human brain with inflammatory diseases.

Roles of aquaporin 4 and Kir4.1 in brain water and potassium homeostasis: lessons from knockout mice

Shapiro's team realized that increasing the number of aquaporins on a given cell made it stand out in MRI images acquired using a common clinical technique called diffusion - weighted imaging, which is sensitive to the movement of water molecules.

The group turned to a protein that naturally occurs in humans, called aquaporin.

After implanting the tumor, they gave the mice a drug to trigger the tumor cells to express the aquaporin reporter gene, which made the tumor look darker in MRI images.

Aquaporin sits within the membrane that envelops cells and acts as a gatekeeper for water molecules, allowing them to move in and out of the cell.

Under normal physiological conditions the number of water molecules entering and exiting an aquaporin - expressing cell is the same, so that the total amount of water in each cell does not change.

Multiplex QPCR reactions of RT product were performed using FAM - labeled probes for aquaporin 4, S100b, CX43, GLT - 1 and AKAP12, in combination with VIC - labeled, primer limited GAPDH probe and Taqman mastermix (all Applied Biosystems).

In 2012, he showed that interfering with phosphorylation of the membrane protein aquaporin - 0 results in cataracts that are visually the same as those in a human patienIn 2012, he showed that interfering with phosphorylation of the membrane protein aquaporin - 0 results in cataracts that are visually the same as those in a human patienin cataracts that are visually the same as those in a human patienin a human patient.

Nadia Nabil Haj - Yasein Roles of aquaporin 4 and Kir4.1 in brain water and potassium homeostasis: lessons from knockout mice Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, 28 February 2012 Supervisor: Erlend Arnulf Nagelhus

Agre shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Roderick MacKinnon in 2003 for his discovery of aquaporins — channels that regulate and facilitate water molecule transport through cell membranes, a process essential to all living organisms.

Rheinanthrone, a metabolite of sennoside A, triggers macrophage activation to decrease aquaporin - 3 expression in the colon, causing the laxative effect of rhubarb extract.

«Life Without» will be on view through June 3rd, 2018, at the Primer Space in Aquaporin, Nymøllevej.

Edith Cowan University (ECU) research has found individuals with particular genetic variations in Aquaporin - 4 (AQP4) proteins reported poorer sleep and -LSB-...]