zonula adherens

However, adhesive contacts with significant resemblance with zonula adherens were observed.

Thus cardiomyocyte adherens junctions differ from epithelial zonula adherens and desmosomes.

The zonula adherens is characterised by a cortical ring of cytoskeleton, the major component of which is actin.

They can appear as bands encircling the cell (zonula adherens) or as spots of attachment to the extracellular matrix (adhesion plaques).

Adherens junctions (or zonula adherens, intermediate junction, or "belt desmosome") are protein complexes that occur at cell-cell junctions in epithelial tissues, usually more basal than tight junctions.

Terminal bar is a histological term given to the unresolved group of junctional complexes that attach adjacent epithelial cells on their lateral surfaces: the Zonula Occludens, Zonula Adherens, Macula Adherens and Macula Communicans.