Aquaporin water channels in liver: Their significance in bile formation

Vasopressin increases water permeability of kidney collecting duct by inducing translocation of aquaporin-CD water channels to plasma membrane.

1995 • 1,017 citations

Cloning and expression of apical membrane water channel of rat kidney collecting tubule

1993 • 1,002 citations

Requirement of Human Renal Water Channel Aquaporin-2 for Vasopressin-dependent Concentration of Urine

1994 • 870 citations

Distribution of the aquaporin CHIP in secretory and resorptive epithelia and capillary endothelia.

1993 • 761 citations

Aquaporin CHIP: the archetypal molecular water channel

1993 • 670 citations

Pathophysiology of the Aquaporin Water Channels

1996 • 492 citations

The three-dimensional structure of aquaporin-1

1997 • 451 citations

Molecular Cloning and Characterization of an Aquaporin cDNA from Salivary, Lacrimal, and Respiratory Tissues

1995 • 414 citations

Mechanisms and regulation of bile secretion

1991 • 402 citations

Water transport across mammalian cell membranes

1996 • 329 citations

Mutations in aquaporin-1 in Phenotypically Normal Humans Without Functional CHIP Water Channels

1994 • 312 citations

Three-dimensional organization of a human water channel

1997 • 278 citations

Water Channel Properties of Major Intrinsic Protein of Lens

1995 • 248 citations

Secretin Promotes Osmotic Water Transport in Rat Cholangiocytes by Increasing Aquaporin-1 Water Channels in Plasma Membrane

1997 • 187 citations

Transcellular water transport in lung alveolar epithelium through mercury-sensitive water channels.

1994 • 165 citations

Role of membrane trafficking in plasma membrane solute transport

1994 • 135 citations

Cholangiocytes express the aquaporin CHIP and transport water via a channel-mediated mechanism.

1994 • 118 citations

Somatostatin inhibits secretin-induced ductal hypercholeresis and exocytosis by cholangiocytes

1995 • 99 citations

Regulation of activity and apical targeting of the Cl-/HCO3- exchanger in rat hepatocytes.

1994 • 99 citations

Quantitative Analysis of Aquaporin mRNA Expression in Rat Tissues by RNase Protection Assay

1996 • 92 citations

Secretin stimulates bile ductular secretory activity through the cAMP system

1992 • 87 citations

Bile duct epithelium: frontiers in transport physiology

1996 • 74 citations

Isolation and characterization of rat cholangiocyte vesicles enriched in apical or basolateral plasma membrane domains

1995 • 73 citations

Kinetic and molecular identification of sodium-dependent glucose transporter in normal rat cholangiocytes

1997 • 69 citations

From contractile vacuole to leaky epithelia. Coupling between salt and water fluxes in biological membranes

1992 • 54 citations

Pharmacologic effect of somatostatin on bile formation in the dog. Enhanced ductular reabsorption as the major mechanism of anticholeresis.

1983 • 52 citations

Localization and characterization of secretin binding sites expressed by rat bile duct epithelium

1992 • 49 citations

Sugar absorption by the biliary ductular epithelium of the rat: Evidence for two transport systems

1992 • 43 citations

Osmotic gradient dependence of osmotic water permeability in rabbit proximal convoluted tubule

1988 • 43 citations

Solute and Water Transport Pathways in Cholangiocytes

1996 • 38 citations

Secretin empties bile duct cell cytoplasm of vesicles when it initiates ductular HCO3− secretion in the pig

1988 • 35 citations

Is vesicular exocytosis and membrane recycling a mechanism for secretin-induced choleresis in bile duct epithelium? Kato A, Gores GJ, LaRusso NF. Secretin Stimulates Exocytosis in Isolated Bile Duct Epithelial Cells by a Cyclic AMP-mediated Mechanism. J Biol Chem 1992; 267: 15523–15529

1993 • 26 citations

Colchicine blocks the effects of secretin on bile duct cell tubulovesicles and plasma membrane geometry and impairs ductular HCO₃^‐ secretion in the pig

1990 • 10 citations

Mechanisms of fluid and electrolyte transport by the biliary epithelium and their contribution to bile formation

1995 • 8 citations