Novel bUT-B2 urea transporter isoform is constitutively activated
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Novel bUT-B2 urea transporter isoform is constitutively activated.
Our previous studies have detailed a novel facilitative UT-B urea transporter isoform, bUT-B2. Despite the existence of mouse and human orthologs, the functional characteristics of UT-B2 remain undefined. In this report, we produced a stable MDCK cell line that expressed bUT-B2 protein and investigated the transepithelial urea flux across cultured cell monolayers. We observed a large basal urea...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0363-6119,1522-1490
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00199.2009