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Methods of Determining the Routes of Intestinal Water Transport

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The main reasons for measuring net water movements across epithelia are to determine the forces which generate the flows and to assess the routes by which water traverses the tissue. Determining water flows by indirect methods is a compromise between expediency and accuracy and is often based on unjustified assumptions with regard to tissue behaviour. For this reason direct measurement of water flow is preferable.

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  1. Department of Physiology, King’s College London, The Strand London, WC2R 2LS, UK

    R. J. Naftalin

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  1. University of London, London, UK

    David L. Yudilevich

  2. University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Rosa Devés

  3. University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain

    Salvador Perán

  4. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

    Z. Ioav Cabantchik

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Naftalin, R.J. (1991). Methods of Determining the Routes of Intestinal Water Transport. In: Yudilevich, D.L., Devés, R., Perán, S., Cabantchik, Z.I. (eds) Cell Membrane Transport. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9601-8_4

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