Aquaporins: another piece in the osmotic puzzle

Osmolarity not only plays a key role in celluar homeostasis but also challenges cell survival. The molecular understanding of osmosis has not yet been completely achieved, and the discovery of aquaporins as molecular entities involved in water transport has caused osmosis to again become a focus of...

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Autores principales: Alleva, Karina Edith, Chara, Osvaldo, Amodeo, Gabriela
Formato: Articulo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2012
Materias:
Ciencias Naturales
Ciencias Exactas
Aquaporin
Ósmosis
Osmotic permeability
Phenomenological law
Water transport
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/95356
https://ri.conicet.gov.ar/11336/68348
https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.febslet.2012.06.013
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topic Ciencias Naturales
Ciencias Exactas
Aquaporin
Ósmosis
Osmotic permeability
Phenomenological law
Water transport
spellingShingle Ciencias Naturales
Ciencias Exactas
Aquaporin
Ósmosis
Osmotic permeability
Phenomenological law
Water transport
Alleva, Karina Edith
Chara, Osvaldo
Amodeo, Gabriela
Aquaporins: another piece in the osmotic puzzle
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Ciencias Exactas
Aquaporin
Ósmosis
Osmotic permeability
Phenomenological law
Water transport
description Osmolarity not only plays a key role in celluar homeostasis but also challenges cell survival. The molecular understanding of osmosis has not yet been completely achieved, and the discovery of aquaporins as molecular entities involved in water transport has caused osmosis to again become a focus of research. The main questions that need to be answered are the mechanism underlying the osmotic permeability coefficients and the extent to which aquaporins change our understanding of osmosis. Here, attempts to answer these questions are discussed. Critical aspects of the state of the state of knowledge on osmosis, a topic that has been studied since 19th century, are reviewed and integrated with the available information provided by in vivo, in vitro and in silico approaches.
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author Alleva, Karina Edith
Chara, Osvaldo
Amodeo, Gabriela
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Chara, Osvaldo
Amodeo, Gabriela
author_sort Alleva, Karina Edith
title Aquaporins: another piece in the osmotic puzzle
title_short Aquaporins: another piece in the osmotic puzzle
title_full Aquaporins: another piece in the osmotic puzzle
title_fullStr Aquaporins: another piece in the osmotic puzzle
title_full_unstemmed Aquaporins: another piece in the osmotic puzzle
title_sort aquaporins: another piece in the osmotic puzzle
publishDate 2012
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/95356
https://ri.conicet.gov.ar/11336/68348
https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.febslet.2012.06.013
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