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paracellular transport

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paracellular transport,
transport of molecules around cells and through tight junctions in an epithelial cell layer.


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The adjacent cells adhere through tight junctions formed at the apical side of the monolayer, which can discriminate the transcellular and paracellular transport of drugs across the epithelial layer (Yamashita et al.
However, up to now it has not been fully revealed whether the increased macromolecular passage is mainly due to transcellular or paracellular transport.
Recently these structures that give rise to paracellular transport have been shown to contain a relatively large amount of protein.
 
 
 
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