Water channel proteins (later called aquaporins) and relatives: past, present, and future

G Benga - IUBMB life, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Water channels or water channel proteins (WCPs) are transmembrane proteins that have a
specific three‐dimensional structure with a pore that can be permeated by water molecules …

[HTML][HTML] Neurite Exchange Imaging (NEXI): A minimal model of diffusion in gray matter with inter-compartment water exchange

IO Jelescu, A de Skowronski, F Geffroy, M Palombo… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Biophysical models of diffusion in white matter have been center-stage over the past two
decades and are essentially based on what is now commonly referred to as the “Standard …

Comparative studies of water permeability of red blood cells from humans and over 30 animal species: an overview of 20 years of collaboration with Philip Kuchel

G Benga - European Biophysics Journal, 2013 - Springer
NMR measurements of the diffusional permeability of the human adult red blood cell (RBC)
membrane to water (P d) and of the activation energy (E a, d) of the process furnished …

A bird's‐eye view of the C‐value enigma: genome size, cell size, and metabolic rate in the class Aves

TR Gregory - Evolution, 2002 - academic.oup.com
For half a century, variation in genome size (C—value) has been an unresolved puzzle in
evolutionary biology. While the initial “C—value paradox” was solved with the discovery of …

Imaging single-cell blood flow in the smallest to largest vessels in the living retina

A Joseph, A Guevara-Torres, J Schallek - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Tissue light scatter limits the visualization of the microvascular network deep inside the living
mammal. The transparency of the mammalian eye provides a noninvasive view of the …

The limits on trypanosomatid morphological diversity

RJ Wheeler, E Gluenz, K Gull - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Cell shape is one, often overlooked, way in which protozoan parasites have adapted to a
variety of host and vector environments and directional transmissions between these …

The effect of the diffusion time and pulse gradient duration ratio on the diffraction pattern and the structural information estimated from q-space diffusion MR …

A Bar-Shir, L Avram, E Özarslan, PJ Basser… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2008 - Elsevier
q-Space diffusion MRI (QSI) provides a means of obtaining microstructural information about
porous materials and neuronal tissues from diffusion data. However, the accuracy of this …

Comparative studies of the protein composition of red blood cell membranes from eight mammalian species

H Matei, L Frentescu, G Benga - Journal of cellular and …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
The polypeptide pattern of red blood cell (RBC) membranes from cow, sheep, horse, rabbit,
guinea pig, rat, mouse, analyzed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, was compared to …

Water self-diffusion behavior in yeast cells studied by pulsed field gradient NMR

KJ Suh, YS Hong, VD Skirda, VI Volkov, CYJ Lee… - Biophysical …, 2003 - Elsevier
The water self-diffusion behavior in yeast cell water suspension was investigated by pulsed
field gradient NMR techniques. Three types of water were detected, which differ according to …

Rheological properties of erythrocytes from male hypercholesterolemia

CYJ Lee, KC Kim, HW Park, JH Song, CH Lee - Microvascular Research, 2004 - Elsevier
Diet and general health status has close relation to the flow behavior of blood, which
influences the circulation of the blood in the body. In this study, we have compared the …