A freeze fracture replica of a Sertoli cell junction from rat testis shows more than 50 rows of particles along the E-face. Image from Gilula, Fawcett and Aoki, Dev. Biol. 50: 142-168 (1976), reprint...

Upper panel shows a typical zonula occludens of rat intestinal epithelium, prepared using freeze fracture techniques. A network of intersecting strands on the P-face, and a complementary pattern of g...

Occluding junctions in Sertoli cells of ram and rat testis. Multiple focal sites of membrane fusion are indicated by arrows in each panel. Underlying these sites, associated bundles of filaments and...

Portion of a proximal convoluted tubule from a rat kidney with experimental hemoglobinuria. A mass of dense hemoglobin completely fills the tubule lumen and outlines the microvilli of the brush border...

Portion of a proximal convoluted tubule from a rat kidney with experimental hemoglobinuria. A mass of dense hemoglobin completely fills the tubule lumen and outlines the microvilli (MV) of the brush b...

Junctional complex between two cells in the epithelium of the rat intestinal mucosa. The tight junction (also known as zonula occludens) is the structure located nearest to the lumen. The elimination ...

Junctional complex between two cells in the epithelium of the rat intestinal mucosa. The tight junction (also known as zonula occludens, ZO) located nearest to the lumen extends from arrow 1 to arrow ...

Figures 81 (upper) and 82 (lower) from Chapter 3 (Junctional Specializations) of 'The Cell, 2nd Ed.' by Don W. Fawcett M.D. Septate junctions (upper, rectum; lower, testis) in the cockroach Periplane...

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...

Freeze fracture replicas of zonula occludens junctions from the large intestine of a tadpole (upper) and intestine of a post-metamorphic toad (lower). The occluding junction appears as a meshwork of...