Example sentences for: transepithelial

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  • The injury to the renal tubular cells has been attributed to four major factors: renal vasoconstriction, reduction of glomerular capillary permeability, tubular obstruction and transepithelial back-leak of filtrate [ 45].

  • MDCK cells transfected with empty virus showed no augmentation of transepithelial water movement, confirming previous work that showed water does not flow across tight junctions in MDCK confluent layers [ 16 ] . Cells transfected with empty virus also showed no effect of TEA treatment.

  • This cell line spontaneously differentiates in culture and expresses biochemical and morphological characteristics of well-differentiated small intestine-like enterocytes [ 17 23 ] . We have previously shown that Caco-2 cells possess a classical nuclear vitamin D receptor [ 18 ] that directly mediates vitamin D-dependent gene expression [ 22 ] , and exhibits a high degree of specificity for various vitamin D metabolites and analogs [ 20 21 ] . Most importantly, in response to short-term (<24 h) 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D treatment, Caco-2 cells increase transepithelial calcium transport [ 17 ] and calbindin D 9K expression [ 19 ] , a cytosolic calcium binding protein.

  • There is no net transepithelial water movement with solutions of identical osmolalities in the bath and lumen.

  • NBCs are also responsible for electrogenic transepithelial bicarbonate cotransport in kidney proximal tubules [ 4, 5].


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