Concept information
Preferred term
Tight Junctions
Type
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mesh:Descriptor
Definition
- Cell-cell junctions that seal adjacent epithelial cells together, preventing the passage of most dissolved molecules from one side of the epithelial sheet to the other. (Alberts et al., Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2nd ed, p22)
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Occluding Junctions
- Zonula Occludens
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- chemistry (Qualifier)
- classification (Qualifier)
- drug effects (Qualifier)
- enzymology (Qualifier)
- genetics (Qualifier)
- immunology (Qualifier)
- metabolism (Qualifier)
- microbiology (Qualifier)
- parasitology (Qualifier)
- pathology (Qualifier)
- physiology (Qualifier)
- radiation effects (Qualifier)
- ultrastructure (Qualifier)
- virology (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Jonction serrée
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Jonctions étanches
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Zonula occludens
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-HXDP8PRJ-J
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