intercellular junction

A similar narrow regular gap was not demonstrated in other intercellular junctions photographed using the TEM at the time.

The adhesive glycoproteins of the other major intercellular junctions of epithelia, the desmosomes, are members of the cadherin family.

Also, unique to animal cells are the following intercellular junctions: tight junctions, gap junctions, and desmosomes.

Contact normalization is a process by which intercellular junctions mediate signals that allow normal cells to inhibit the transformed growth of neighboring tumor cells.

Damaged intercellular junctions allow increased permeation of luminal substances, which by itself seems to be insufficient to elicit detectable neutrophil chemoattraction.

The barrier consists of zonular intercellular junctions, rather than tight junctions, with clefts formed by extracellular fibrils.

It's a broad intercellular junction in the transversal sections of an intercalated disk of cardiac muscle anchoring actin filaments.

Integrity of intercellular junctions is a major determinant of permeability of the endothelium, and the VE-cadherin-based adherens junction is thought to be particularly important.

Over the past decade plectin has been identified as an important component linking the cytoskeleton to intercellular junctions which enable the structural integrity of a tissue as a whole.

In pemphigus, the group of autoimmune diseases that cause epidermal blistering, patients' serum contains autoantibodies to desmosomes, the cadherin-like glycoproteins of the epidermal intercellular junctions.

PECAM-1 is found on the surface of platelets, monocytes, neutrophils, and some types of T-cells, and makes up a large portion of endothelial cell intercellular junctions.

TC and SC make a tandem (due to specific intercellular junctions) within the so-called SC niches, at least in heart [24] and lungs.

Cell Communication & Adhesion is an academic journal that publishes review articles on intercellular communication, intercellular junctions and families of adhesion receptors and counter receptors from diverse biological systems.

This may result in loss of the integrity of the intercellular junctions which is evident as increased intestinal permeability to paracellular probe markers within 12 hours of NSAID ingestion in man.

Indeed recent work in a perfusion system with rat jejunum has added to the probability of there being substantial passive glucose absorption after changes in the intercellular junctions once active electrogenic sodium absorption is stimulated.

In adult epithelia - for example, intestinal epithelium - it is present on the lateral cell surfaces but is concentrated in intercellular junctions known as the zonulae adherentes, which ring the cells in the apicolateral region.

In either case, the ColQ or PRiMA anchor serves to maintain the enzyme in the intercellular junction, ColQ for the neuromuscular junction and PRiMA for synapses.

Functioning as a classic cadherin by imparting to cells the ability to adhere in a homophilic manner, the protein may play an important role in endothelial cell biology through control of the cohesion and organization of the intercellular junctions.

Our histological patterns were very similar to the ultrastructural ones: a normal epithelium colonised by an interrupted file of organisms lying on the epithelial surface; a degenerated epithelium colonised by a reduced number of bacteria that seemed adherent to the epithelial surface or at intercellular junctions.