Upper panel, adjoining portions of two cells in the stratum spinosum of hamster cheek pouch epithelium shows desmosome junctions between two cells. Lower, a portion of the basal surface of a cell in ...

Upper: capillary endothelial cell junction in the rete mirabile of the gas bladder of the toadfish Opsanus tau shows dense intracelluular plaques and the central dense line in the intercellular space,...

Epithelia of invertebrates contain zona continua and septate junctions not found in mammals. Left, zonula continua from gut epithelium of a flea; right, septate junction from the midgut epithelium of...

These examples of ependymal epithelium from the rat brain represent epithelia that lack zonulae occludentes. Further, there appears to be no consistent order to the junctional specializations that are...

Glial cells in the nerve cord of the annelid worm, Aphrodita aculeata are rich in 10 nm filaments, and desmosomes are abundant. Figure 89 from Chapter 3 (Junctional Specializations) of 'The Cell, 2nd ...

Stratified squamous epithelium from the esophagus of the rat. Keratin filaments (tonofilaments, arrows) are sparse, and desmosomes are few (see inset), in the basal cell layer of this tissue. Figures...

Electron micrograph of the junctional complex of intestinal epithelial cells of the rat shows the apical-most zonula occludens (tight junction), the zonula adherens (medium junction) and the macula ad...

Cell junctions formed between adjacent epidermal cells in Fundulus heteroclitus scales. Desmosomes line the membranes of two epidermal cells. A vast network of intermediate filaments and microfilament...

Transmission electron micrograph of intercalated disks with a desmosome from the atria of mouse cardiac muscle cells. The intercalated disks are where the junction of two opposing membranes of adjace...

Transmission electron micrograph of thin section of rat liver with prominent Golgi and smooth ER associated vesicles. At lower right, the junction between hepatocytes harbors a bile canaliculus. The i...