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The movement of ions across energy-transducing cell membranes. Transport can be active, passive or facilitated. Ions may travel by themselves (uniport), or as a group of two or more ions in the same (symport) or opposite (antiport) directions.
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- Transport, Ion
- Active Ion Transport
- Antiport
- Facilitated Ion Transport
- Ion Cotransport
- Ion Exchange, Intracellular
- Passive Ion Transport
- Symport
- Uniport
- Cotransport, Ion
- Exchange, Intracellular Ion
- Intracellular Ion Exchange
- Ion Transport, Active
- Ion Transport, Facilitated
- Ion Transport, Passive
- Transport, Active Ion
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Indexed with the subheadings drug effects, ethics, genetics, immunology, physiology, radiation effects.
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in biol systems: do not confuse with ION EXCHANGE, a physicochem process; coord NIM with endogenous substance /metab (IM) or with exogenous substance /pharmacokin (IM); if active transport, coord with BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE
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- Ion Exchange (1966-1992)
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- National Library of Medicine. Ion Transport. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017136. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017136
- Ion Transport. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_transport
- Ion Transport. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14859673