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Gap junctions and blood-tissue barriers.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2012
Li Michelle W M, Mruk Dolores D, Cheng C Yan
Abstract excerpt
Gap junction is a cell-cell communication junction type found in virtually all mammalian epithelia and endothelia and provides the necessary "signals" to coordinate physiological events to maintain the homeostasis of an epithelium and/or endothelium under normal physiological condition and following changes in the cellular environment (e.g., stimuli from stress, growth, development, inflammation, infection)....
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