Describe the transport of glucose out of an intestinal cell and into the blood
What will be an ideal response?
Glucose is transported from the intestinal cell into the blood via facilitated transport. The carrier for this process is called GLUT (glucose transporter). After entering the intestinal cell via the SGLT, glucose moves through the cytosol and attaches to the GLUT in the plasma membrane on the basolateral (blood) side of the cell. This causes the GLUT to change shape and transport the glucose down its concentration gradient out of the cell. The glucose then diffuses through the interstitial fluid and into the blood vessel, a process that also requires facilitated diffusion carriers.
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