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Biological Transport

"Biological Transport" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The movement of materials (including biochemical substances and drugs) through a biological system at the cellular level. The transport can be across cell membranes and epithelial layers. It also can occur within intracellular compartments and extracellular compartments.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Biological Transport" by people in this website by year, and whether "Biological Transport" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 258 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 19 publications in 1998
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