The gene aquaporin - 1 encodes channel - forming integral protein (CHIP), a member of a large family of water transporters found throughout nature.
Not exact matches
Aquaporin is a naturally occurring
gene and will not cause an immune reaction.
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.
This means that when a
gene of interest is turned on, the cell will overexpress
aquaporin, making the cell look darker under diffusion - weighted MRI.