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 …

Water permeability measurement in living cells and complex tissues

AS Verkman - The Journal of membrane biology, 2000 - Springer
The identification of molecular water transporters and the generation of transgenic mice
lacking water transporting proteins has created a need for accurate methods to measure …

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 …

Diffusional water permeability of mammalian red blood cells

G Benga, T Borza - Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B …, 1995 - Elsevier
An extensive programme of comparative nuclear magnetic resonance measurements of the
membrane diffusional permeability for water (Pd) and of the activation energy (Ea, d) 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 …

Why does the mammalian red blood cell have aquaporins?

PW Kuchel, G Benga - Biosystems, 2005 - Elsevier
Aquaporins are now known to mediate the rapid exchange of water across the plasma
membranes of diverse cell types. This exchange has been studied and kinetically …

Comparative Cell Shape and Diffusional Water Permeability of Red Blood Cells from Indian Elephant (Elephas maximus) and Man (Homo sapiens)

G Benga, PW Kuchel, BE Chapman, GC Cox… - Comparative …, 2000 - Springer
Red blood cells (RBC) from an Indian elephant (Elephas maximus) were studied by light
microscopy (LM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and a new nuclear magnetic …

Loss or mislocalization of aquaporin-4 affects diffusion properties and intermediary metabolism in gray matter of mice

T Pavlin, EA Nagelhus, C Brekken, EM Eyjolfsson… - Neurochemical …, 2017 - Springer
The first aim of this study was to determine how complete or perivascular loss of aquaporin-4
(AQP4) water channels affects membrane permeability for water in the mouse brain grey …

Comparative NMR studies of diffusional water permeability of red blood cells from different species. X. Camel (Camelus dromedarius) and alpaca (Lama pacos)

G Benga, SM Grieve, BE Chapman… - Comparative …, 1999 - Springer
The diffusional water permeability (P d) of camel and alpaca red blood cells (RBCs) was
measured by a doping nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique on control cells and …

NMR studies of diffusional water permeability of red blood cells from the echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus

G Benga, GB Ralston, T Borza, BE Chapman… - … and Physiology Part B …, 1994 - Elsevier
The diffusional water permeability (P d) of the red blood cells (RBC) from echidna
(Tachyglossus aculeatus) was measured by a Mn 2+-doping 1 H nuclear magnetic …