Extracellular Space

The space between cells.
Extracellular space. It contains tissue fluid the water derived from plasma in the adjacent capillaries. For organisms with a cell wall the extracellular space includes everything outside of the cell membrane including the periplasm and the cell wall. The composition of the extracellular space includes metabolites ions proteins and many other substances that might affect. The space found within the cells that holds approximately 2 3 of the total body water.
It is also important to highlight that the extracellular space consists of both the intravascular space and the interstitial or third space. As part of the extracellular matrix. Located or occurring outside a cell or cells. The term is typically used for a secreted protein that remains associated with the cell e g.
Extracellular space refers to the part of a multicellular organism outside the cells usually taken to be outside the plasma membranes and occupied by fluid. It is not used for a protein that is secreted into the blood stream or other body fluids of eukaryotic multicellular organisms such as insulin or fibroblast growth factors. The extracellular space ecs is the microenvironment of the nerve cells and an important communication channel allowing for long distance extrasynaptic volume communication by the diffusion of neuroactive substances between cells. Interstitial space between cells occupied by interstitial fluid as well as amorphous and fibrous substances.
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