Table 2.
Transportation of plasma contents in the steady state
| Routes | Molecules | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Paracellular pathway | Water molecules <3 nm molecular radius (i.e., urea, amino acids, glucose, ions) | ||
| Transcellular pathway | Aquaporin channels | Water (up to 40% of total hydraulic pathway) | |
| Fluid-phase | Caveolae | Albumin [27, 46] intact native, acetylated and oxidized LDL [88, 89] IgG [44] transferrin and iron [90] |
|
| Undetermined | IgG (bound to FcRn in endosomes after fluid-phase endocytosis [40, 41, 43, 49]) | ||
| Receptor-mediated | Caveolae | Albumin (via gp60 receptor) [50–52] insulin (via unknown receptor) [49] |
|
| Clathrin | Insulin [91] transferrin and iron (via transferrin receptor [92, 93]) gonadotrophin (via gonadotropin receptor [94]) |
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| Undetermined carrier vesicle | IgG (via FcRn or FcγR2b [45, 95, 96]) LDL (via LDL receptor [97]) insulin (via insulin receptor [98]) |
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| Transendothelial channels | |||
| Vesiculo-vacuolar organelles | |||
| Direct probing by non-endothelial cells over blood vessels | IgE (via FcεRI by mast cells) [58] | ||