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This document summarizes the absorption and transport of various substances across the intestinal epithelium, including water, sodium, bicarbonate, chloride, and potassium. It describes that absorption involves movement into and through intestinal cells, while secretion is the opposite. Substances can be transported actively against gradients using energy or passively down gradients. Different regions of the intestine absorb substances by various mechanisms like cotransport or paracellular transport.

Author

Della Fergina

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EN