Forms a water-specific channel. Osmoreceptor which regulates body water balance and mediates water flow within the central nervous system. It is expressed predominantly in the ependymal cell lining the aqueductal system and over the space of the brain in contact with the subarachnoid space, as cerebrospinal fluid fills these structures it may facilitate water balance between brain parenchyma and the fluid compartment. In the plasma membranes of the neurons of the paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei, it may mediate rapid changes in cell volume in response to local shifts in extracellular osmolarity.
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"Isolation of an aquaporin-4 water channel (AQP4) gene induced following cerebral ischemia from the rat brain using modified subtractive hybridization and differential screening." Chen D., Chen J., Jing K., Simon R.P., Graham S.H. Submitted (1999-04) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases
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