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intercellular junctions

Monday 14 July 2003

Subtypes

 adhering junctions

  • desmosomes and hemidesomosomes
  • intermediate junctions

 adherens junctions (zonula adherens)
 zonula occludens
 GAP junctions
 tight junctions

Pathology of cellular junctions

 Pathology of desmosomes
 Pathology of GAP junctions

See also

 epithelial junctions

References

 Braga VM, Yap AS. The challenges of abundance: epithelial junctions and small GTPase signalling. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2005 Oct;17(5):466-74. PMID: 16112561

 Petty MA, Lo EH. Junctional complexes of the blood-brain barrier: permeability changes in neuroinflammation. Prog Neurobiol. 2002 Dec;68(5):311-23. PMID: 12531232

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