With the exception of the brain, how are materials exchanged across capillary walls elsewhere in the body?

a. by carrier-mediated transport systems
b. by active protein carriers
c. by capillary shuttles
d. mainly by diffusion
e. mainly by membrane binding


d

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What will be an ideal response?

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