After a decade of work on the water permeability of red blood cells (RBC) Benga group in
Cluj-Napoca, Romania, discovered in 1985 the first water channel protein in the RBC …

Although water is the major component of all biological fluids, the molecular pathways for
water transport across cell membranes eluded identification until the discovery of the …

Aquaporins (AQP) are integral membrane proteins that serve as channels in the transfer of
water, and in some cases, small solutes across the membrane. They are conserved in …

A critical analysis of the discovery of the first water channel protein (later called aquaporin 1)
has been performed. In 1986 Benga's group in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, published in …

Aquaporins (AQPs) are membrane water channel proteins expressed in various tissues in
the body. We surveyed the immunolocalization of AQP3, an isoform of the AQP family, in rat …

How water permeates cellular membranes and what this means for cell functioning and
several diseases are now emerging from the study of the aquaporins (AQPs), the water …

Several aquaporin-type water channels are expressed in mammalian kidney and lung:
AQP1 in lung microvessels and kidney proximal tubule, thin descending limb of Henle, and …

The water permeability of biological membranes has been a longstanding problem in
physiology, but the proteins responsible for this remained unknown until discovery of the …

Currently, aquaporins (AQPs) are divided into two subfamilies: AQP1 group and AQP3
group. AQP1 group is water-selective AQP and has 6 members in mammals: AQPO, AQP1 …

The mammalian aquaporins AQP1, AQP4, and AQP5 have been shown to function not only
as water channels but also as gas channels. Zebrafish have two genes encoding an AQP1 …