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Significats de bicellular tight junction en anglès

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An occluding cell-cell junction that is composed of a branching network of sealing strands that completely encircles the apical end of each cell in an epithelial sheet; the outer leaflets of the two interacting plasma membranes are seen to be tightly.

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        Examples for "zonula occludens"
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        Microvillis and zonula occludens were observed on the surface of the differentiated cells under an electron microscope.
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        2
        Most gap junctions between neurons in mammalian retina contain abundant connexin36, often in association with the scaffolding protein zonula occludens-1.
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        3
        The expression and membrane localization of the tight junction proteins zonula occludens-1 and occludin were decreased in alveolar epithelial cells from HIV-1 transgenic rats.
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