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cotransport

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cotransport /co·trans·port/ (ko-trans´port) linking of the transport of one substance across a membrane with the simultaneous transport of a different substance in the same direction.
cotransport [ko-trans´port]
linking of the transport of one substance across a membrane with the simultaneous transport of a different substance in the same direction. See also countertransport.

cotransport
the simultaneous movement of two substances across a membrane. See also antiport, symport.


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Effect of cadmium on Na-Pi cotransport kinetics in rabbit renal brush-border membrane vesicles.
In addition to these hemodynamic properties, glucocorticoids have additional actions on sodium/phosphate cotransport, sulphate cotransport and amino acid transport.
Other studies have suggested that red cell RVD occurs because of electroneutral KCl cotransport out of the cell and RVI occurs because of electroneutral NaK2Cl or NaCl cotransport into the cell (Haussinger and Lang, 1991).
 
 
 
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