The roles of aquaporin-4 in brain edema
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Xuemei Fu; Qiuping Li; Zhichun Feng; Dezhi Mu
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Aquaporin‐4 (AQP4), a water channel protein, is abundantly expressed in astrocytes and plays a key role in the development of brain edema. However, it is not clear whether AQP4 contributes to astrocytic swelling in hypoxia–ischemia (HI). To investigate the roles of AQP4 in astrocytic sw