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. 2015 Apr 3:134–149.e5. doi: 10.1016/B978-1-4557-3383-5.00008-7

Table 8-1.

Ratios of Various Transport Parameters in TI and TII Cells

TI : TII Cell Ratio References
Cell surface area 43 4
Osmotic water permeability 7 26
Na+ and K+ uptake/µg protein ≈3 30
Apical Na+ channels/cell ≈40 28
CNG and K+ channels * 28
CFTR 6 28

CFTR, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator; CNG, cyclic nucleotide gated.

*

Present in TI cells, not TII cells.