The black arrows indicate the major influences on maintenance of ... in the complex control stability and integrity of the intercellular junction and facilitate cytoskeletal attachment through ...

leading to the hypothesis that loss of direct intercellular communication is commonly associated with cancer onset and progression. Subsequent studies linked this phenomenon to gap junctions ...

Leukocytes emigrate from the bloodstream into inflamed tissues by sequential intercellular adhesion ... PECAM-1–deficient mice do not have a major quantitative defect in their inflammatory ...

These cells form sheet-like barriers through intercellular adhesive junctions, protein complexes that hold cells together and ...

In addition to this role in tissue homeostasis, cell extrusion is a major cause of tissue ... by the strength of intercellular contacts, the E-cadherin junctions. Moreover, they showed that ...

However, over the past few years, scientists have found increasing evidence that RNA, which carries genetic information and ...

After the junctions have opened, the uptake of yolk proteins into the egg proceeds over about 16 hours and, subsequently, the process reverses - the intercellular spaces close again. The ...