AQUAPORIN RESEARCH

The efficiency with which feed is used by meat and milk animals has increased enormously as a result of nutritional research, but in the future water may become a more limiting resource than feed.

This photomicrograph of lactating mammary tissue from a rat shows the presence (in brown) of aquaporins: membrane proteins that transport water. By understanding more about these important molecules we will be able to increase the efficiency with which water is used by dairy cows. 

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