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I thank Joachim Biwersi, Javier Farinas and Nallagounder Periasamy for critical review of this manuscript. This work was supported by grants DK43840, DK35124, HL42368 and HL85854 from the National Institutes of Health, and grants from the National Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and American Heart Association.

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Verkman, A.S. Optical methods to measure membrane transport processes. J. Membarin Biol. 148, 99–110 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00207267

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