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Tight junction-based epithelial microenvironment and cell proliferation.
Oncogene - 24 Nov 2008
Tsukita S, Yamazaki Y, Katsuno T, Tamura A, Tsukita S
Abstract excerpt
Belt-like tight junctions (TJs), referred to as zonula occludens, have long been regarded as a specialized differentiation of epithelial cell membranes. They are required for cell adhesion and paracellular barrier functions, and are now thought to be partly involved in fence functions and in cell...
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