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gap junction gap junction
gap junction (nexus) A passage through the lipid bilayers of adjacent plasma membranes that mediates the transfer of small molecules or ions between interacting cells. Gap junctions are abundant in epithelial tissues and cardiac muscle. They consist of hexagonally packed tubes, approximately... Read more
tight junction tight junction
tight junction A region of the cell surface, of variable size, and situated just below the apical border where the membranes of adjacent cells are fused to form a pentalaminar structure. In simple epithelial layers tight junctions often form a continuous layer (the zonula occludens). Their function... Read more
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adherens junction adherens junction
adherens junction A cell junction that is commonly observed in epithelial (see EPITHELIUM) cells (e.g. those lining the intestine and those in cardiac muscle cells). At these junctions the cell membranes of the neighbouring cells are separated by a space of 15–25 nm which is filled with a... Read more
Neurochemistry Neurochemistry
NEUROCHEMISTRY None of the billions of nerve cells, or neurons, in the human brain functions alone. To process information, neurons must form circuits and must communicate with each other rapidly and with great precision. Within a neuron, the electrical impulses that carry information are propagated... Read more
desmosome desmosome
desmosome (macula adherens) A patchlike junction found between adjacent cells in epithelial tissues that helps strengthen the tissue by binding the cells together while allowing movement of materials within the intercellular space. It consists of a discrete cluster of fibres running across a space,... Read more
synapse synapse
synapse , junction between various signal-transmitter cells, either between two neurons or between a neuron and a muscle or gland. A nerve impulse reaches the synapse through the axon, or transmitting end, of a nerve cell, or neuron. Most axons have terminal knobs that respond to the impulse by... Read more
neuromuscular junction neuromuscular junction
neuromuscular junction The body contains over 600 different skeletal muscles and each consists of thousands of muscle fibres ranging in length from a few millimetres to several centimetres. The motor nerve fibres innervating them, which arise in the spinal cord, can be more than 1 m in length.... Read more
thermoelectricity thermoelectricity
thermoelectricity direct conversion of heat into electric energy, or vice versa. The term is generally restricted to the irreversible conversion of electricity into heat described by the English physicist James P. Joule and to three reversible effects named for Seebeck, Peltier, and Thomson, their... Read more
neurone neurone
neurone (nerve cell) (newr-ohn) n. one of the basic functional units of the nervous system: a cell specialized to transmit electrical nerve impulses and so carry information from one part of the body to another (see illustration). Impulses enter the neurone through branches of the dendrites and are... Read more

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