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How can a uniporter, GLUT2, be sufficient for entry of glucose from intestinal epithelial cells into the bloodstream?

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This is because we know the amount of Glucose inside the intestinal epithelial cell is higher than in the bloodstream so a uniport in the basolateral surface of the intestinal epithelial cell canbbe used to move glucose into the blood stream and it is the two-Na+/one-glucose symporter placed in the apical surface, acting as secondary active transport that generates the high amount of glucose inside the epithelial cell

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