Epithelial salt and water secretion serves a variety of functions in different organ systems,
such as the airways, intestines, pancreas, and salivary glands. In cystic fibrosis (CF), the …

The article discusses advances in osmoregulation and excretion with emphasis on how
multicellular animals in different osmotic environments regulate their milieu intérieur …

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DANIEL A. BEARD, HONG QIAN CHEMICAL BIOPHYSICS QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF …

Alkaline phosphatase (AP) is a major, recently recognized component of innate immunity.
The intestinal AP (IAP) isoform plays a pivotal role in controlling gastrointestinal and …

The invitation to present the 2010 Hans Ussing lecture for the Epithelial Transport Group of
the American Physiological Society offered me a unique, special, and very surprising …

The mechanism of sodium chloride uptake in hyperregulating aquatic animals | Journal of
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The structure of the gut barrier and luminal chemistry in non-mammalian vertebrates and
invertebrates has been given little attention with respect to the dietary uptake of engineered …

Current plant sciences (as the life sciences in general) tend to follow an empirical rationale
focussing on the molecular scale (genes, proteins), which is supposed to causally dominate …

In the healthy lung the opportunistic pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, is rapidly
eliminated by mucociliary clearance, a process that is dependent on the activity of the CFTR …

Plant extracts are increasingly recognized for their potential in modulating (postprandial)
blood glucose levels. In this context, root extracts are of particular interest due to their high …