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The role of volume regulation in intestinal transport : insights from villus cells in suspension / R. John MacLeod -- Intestinal absorption of water-soluble vitamins : cellular and molecular aspects / Hamid M. Said, Richard Rose, and Bellur Seetharam -- Specialized properties of colonic epithelial membranes : apparent permeability barrier in colonic crypts / Satish K. Singh and Henry J. Binder -- Genetic regulation of expression of intestinal biomembrane transport proteins in response to dietary protein, carbohydrate, and lipid / Lon J. Van Winkle. Molecular structure and regulation of tight junctions / Christina M. Van Itallie and James Melvin Anderson -- The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator in the gastrointestinal system / Erik M. Schwiebert and Richard Rozmahel -- Integrated signaling mechanisms that regulate intestinal chloride secretion / Stephen J. Keely and Kim E. Barrett -- Anion absorption in the intestine: anion transporters, short-chain fatty acids, and the role of the DRA gene product / Marshall H. Montrose and Juha Kere -- Molecular mechanisms of Nucleoside and nucleoside drug transport / James D. Young [et. al] -- Intestinal transport of peptides and amino acids / Vadivel Ganapathy, Malliga E. Ganapathy, and Frederick H. Leibach -- Electrogenic transepithelial Na transport in the colon / Jean-Daniel Horisberger -- Molecular physiology of mammalian epithelial Na/H exchangers NHE2 and NHE3 / Mark Donowitz and Ming Tse -- Molecular aspects of intestinal brush-border Na/Glucose transport / Ernest M. Wright.