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Glucose transporter gene expression in freshly isolated and cultured rat pneumocytes.
Acta physiologica Scandinavica - 1 May 2002
Mamchaoui K, Makhloufi Y, Saumon G
Abstract excerpt
Alveolar epithelium in situ takes up luminal glucose by cotransport with sodium. Cultured alveolar type II pneumocytes have only sodium-independent glucose uptake. It is unclear which isoforms are responsible for glucose transport in these cells and why sodium-glucose cotransport activity disappears during culture. GLUT1, GLUT4, GLUT5 and SGLT1 mRNA were detected in freshly isolated rat alveolar type II cells by...
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