Aquaporins

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yang, Baoxue (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 969
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Pharmacology.; Proteins.; Cell membranes.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Protein Science.; Human Physiology.; Membrane Biology.

This book provides a state-of-the-art report on our current understanding of aquaporins and the future direction of the field. Aquaporins (AQPs) are a group of water-channel proteins that are specifically permeable to water and other small molecules, such as glycerol and urea. To date thirteen water...

Table of Contents:

• Molecular Biology of Aquaporins
• The Evolutionary Aspects of Aquaporin Family
• Transport Characteristics of Aquaporins
• Aquaporins and Gland Secretion
• Aquaporins in Nervous System
• Aquaporins in Cardiovascular System
• Aquaporins in Respiratory System
• Aquaporins in Digestive System
• Aquaporins in Urinary System
• The physiological role and regulation of aquaporins in teleost germ cells
• Aquaporins in the Skin
• Aquaporins in Eye
• Aquaporins in Fetal Development
• Diabetes Insipidus
• Aquaporins in Obesity
• Aquaporin-targeted Therapeutics: State-of-the-field
• Water Transport Mediated by Other Membrane Proteins
• Methods to measure water permeability.