… The work presented here demonstrates the characteristic patterns of AQP0 and AQP1
expression in embryonic, postnatal, and adult mouse lenses. It also offers insights into the function/…

… The expression of the water channel protein aquaporin (AQP)… of AQP5 during embryonic
and postnatal lens development … AQPs are established in the adult lens. The high resolution …

… on lens function, we have generated AQP0 deletion mice using a gene trapping strategy (35)
that allows random targeting of genes in embryonic … mouse lens at 3 wk of age (postpartum …

… aquaporin genes, this is complicated by the facts that either much of normal organ development
occurs postnatally in … The role of aquaporins in fluid balance during fetal development is …

… expression in the lens embryonic epithelium at embryonic … lens embryonic development to
facilitate formation of the ordered cellular architecture of the adult lens, while during postnatal …

… , mutations in other lens aquaporins have not been associated with lens phenotypes in …
in the NBL suggests the potential involvement of APQ3 in the postnatal retina development. …

… Overall, there were no significant structural differences between WT and TgAQP1 +/+ mice
lenses at low or high magnification in embryonic (E11.25–E19.5), as well as postnatal lenses (…

… life with the oldest embryonic primary fiber cells occupying … model expressing a non-native
aquaporin (AQP1) in the lens … prenatal, postnatal and adult lenses of the transgenic mouse, …

… Zebrafish Aqp0a, but not Aqp0b, requires water transport function to maintain embryonic
lens transparency, 24 which in turn impacts the concentration gradients of crystallin proteins. …

… expressed in the lenses of a variety of species and show that AQP5 expression changes as
a function … protein expression occurs in mouse, rat, bovine and human lenses, indicating that …