Adherens junctions (AJs) meet the dual challenge of maintaining tissue architecture and facilitating cell movement during tissue development and renewal. Across animal species, classic cadherins ...

sliding of the junctions and transcriptional control of junction regulators. Epithelial cells display dynamic behaviours, such as rearrangement, movement and shape changes, particularly during ...

The motoneurons project axons (long, slender projections that conduct electrical impulses away from the nerve cell body) through the microtunnels and form neuromuscular junctions with the myotubes.