Epithelial water absorption: osmosis or cotransport?
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A paradigm lost? Not according to the studies of Duquette, Bissonnette, and Lapointe (1), which present a direct test of the recently advanced cotransport hypothesis of water absorption. The results of these studies argue, strongly, that the widely accepted notion that osmotic coupling is the single mechanism responsible for water transport across biological membranes, in general, and epithelia, in particular, is secure and that the recent challenges to this notion can be dismissed.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
دوره 98 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001