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IT is well established that the active transport of hexoses and amino-acids in the intestine is dependent on sodium. To account for this, Crane1 suggested a coupling between sodium and hexose transfer and this idea was developed further by Schultz and Zalusky2, who considered that an electrogenic sodium pump was the fundamental process which made energy available for transfer of other substances.
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JACKSON, M., SMYTH, D. Role of Sodium in the Intestinal Active Transport of Organic Solutes. Nature 219, 388–389 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/219388a0
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