Intercellular Junctions
Direct contact of a cell with a neighboring cell. Most such junctions are too small to be resolved by light microscopy, but they can be visualized by conventional or freeze-fracture electron microscopy, both of which show that the interacting CELL MEMBRANE and often the underlying CYTOPLASM and the intervening EXTRACELLULAR SPACE are highly specialized in these regions. (From Alberts et al., Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2d ed, p792)
Year introduced: 1972(1970)
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Tree Number(s): A11.284.149.165.420
MeSH Unique ID: D007365
Entry Terms:
- Intercellular Junction
- Junction, Intercellular
- Junctions, Intercellular
- Cell Junctions
- Cell Junction
- Junction, Cell
- Junctions, Cell
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