This article reviews recent studies on the alterations occurring in the brain vessel wall of the
mdx mouse, an animal model with genetic defects in a region homologous with the human …

This invited review briefly outlines the importance of membrane water permeability,
highlights the landmarks leading to the discovery of water channels. After a decade of …

Publisher Summary Identification of the aquaporin gene family has provided new insight into
the way water moves across the plasma membranes of many tissues and cell types …

Aquaporins are intrinsic membrane proteins involved in water transport in fluid-transporting
tissues. In the brain, aquaporin-4 (AQP4) is expressed widely by glial cells, but its function is …

It has been proposed that aquaporin-4 (AQP4), a water channel expressed at the
plasmalemma of skeletal muscle cells, is important in normal muscle physiology and in the …

Water homeostasis in the brain is of central physiologic and clinical importance. Neuronal
activity and ion water homeostasis are inextricably coupled. For example, the clearance of …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes arginine vasopressin (AVP) as a non-apeptide,
which is generally considered as an antidiuretic and vasoconstrictive hormone. It is mainly …

Six years have elapsed since the publication of the Neuroscience Special Issue entitled
“Brain Water Homeostasis”(Agre et al., 2004). Several of the chapters in the latter Special …

Cellular activities within the brain display regional specificity and a neuronal and glia
interdependence. Components characterizing the regional specificity of neurons have been …

Aquaporins (AQPs) are a family of widely distributed membrane-inserted water channel
proteins providing a pathway for osmotically-driven water, glycerol, urea or ions transport …