countertransport en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrāder. Old French contre- Anglo-Norman countre-bor. Middle English counter- English counter- English transport English countertransport From counter- + transport.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The transport of two chemical species across a membrane in opposite directions
Increased Na+/Li+ countertransport activity has been described in a study of parents of proteinuric type 1 diabetic patients, although not in another.
2002, Max Ellenberg, Harold Rifkin, et al., Ellenberg and Rifkin's Diabetes Mellitus: