Sentences with phrase «for aquaporin»

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).

Expression profiling after retinal detachment and reattachment: a possible role for aquaporin - 0.

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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.

«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.

For example, the aquaporin protein - mediated flow of water across biological cell membranes is down to a balance between hydrophobic and hydrophilic interactions with channel surfaces.

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

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.

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.