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- Adherens junctions (or zonula adherens, intermediate junction, or "belt desmosome") are protein complexes that occur at cell–cell junctions and cell–matrix...
- fascia adherens are ribbon-like structures that stabilize non-epithelial tissue. They are similar in function and structure to the zonula adherens or adherens...
- of adherens junctions is ****ociated with bundles of actin filaments that also encircle the cell just below the plasma membrane. Spot-like adherens junctions...
- A desmosome (/ˈdɛzməˌsoʊm/; "binding body"), also known as a macula adherens (plural: maculae adherentes) (Latin for adhering spot), is a cell structure...
- non-classical cadherins. Adherens junctions mainly function to maintain the shape of tissues and to hold cells together. In adherens junctions, cadherins...
- cell-ECM adhesion, such as the formation of adherens junctions, tight junctions and focal adhesions. Adherens junctions are a type of cell-cell adhesion...
- de Blainville, 1830 Actinia vasum Anemonia adhaerens Ehrenberg Anemonia adherens Anemonia erythrosoma Ehrenberg Anemonia kwoiam Haddon & Shackleton, 1893...
- There are mainly 5 different types of cell junctions: tight junctions, adherens junctions, desmosomes, hemidesmosomes, and gap junctions. Tight junctions...
- Desmosomes leave a gap of 30 nanometers between cells. Adherens junctions, also called zonula adherens, are multiprotein complexes formed by proteins of the...
- attached to adherens junctions (also called focal adhesions) in the cell membrane of the smooth muscle cell, called the sarcolemma. The adherens junctions...