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Coupling between simultaneous movements of carrier substrates

W. Wilbrandt
- 29 Dec 1972 - 
- Vol. 10, Iss: 3, pp 357-366
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Countertransport and competitive acceleration were studied experimentally in the glucose system of the red cell membrane and theoretically by analysis of kinetics and the cross-coefficients are found to be equal in accordance with Onsager's law.
Abstract
Countertransport and competitive acceleration were studied experimentally in the glucose system of the red cell membrane and theoretically by analysis of kinetics. It is shown that, although the conditions for demonstration of the two phenomena differ, they are related by a symmetric interdependence of the simultaneous movements of two substrates. The symmetry can be shown by different types of kinetic treatment. Using the phenomenological equations of nonequilibrium thermodynamics for the description, the cross-coefficients are found to be equal in accordance with Onsager's law.

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Na+ -dependent transport in the intestine and other animal tissues.

Crane Rk
TL;DR: The concept of the brush border membrane of the epithelial cell as a digestive-absorptive surface in which the elements responsible for digestion and absorption are arranged in ordered proximity to one another as in a mosaic is supported by evidence and experiments from the literature.
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Uphill transport induced by counterflow

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