MIPs and Their Role in the Exchange of Metalloids

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jahn, Thomas P. (Editor), Bienert, Gerd P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 679
• Subjects: Medicine.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.

Sixteen years have passed since human aquaporin-1 (AQP1) was discovered as the first water channel, facilitating trans-membrane water fluxes. Subsequent years of research showed that the water channel AQP1 was only the tip of an iceberg; the iceberg itself being the ubiquitous super family of membra...