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Which process assures that drugs like penicillin are removed from the body, even though they are not filtered?

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Tubular Secretion. Tubular secretion is the process of material being transferred from the Peritubular capillaries to the renal tubular lumen . Is is a process of active transport as well as passive transfusion. it is basically the opposite of the reabsorption process. 
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