«It has been very difficult to
study cell junctions, which maintain the skin's barrier function by keeping cells attached to each other,» says Sinha.
Not exact matches
«In theory, conventional single -
junction solar
cells can only achieve an efficiency level of about 34 percent, but in practice they don't achieve that,» said
study co-author Paul Braun, a professor of materials science at Illinois.
The
study is titled, «Transitional basal
cells at the squamous - columnar
junction generate Barrett's oesophagus.»
«Specifically, the protein expression responsible for endothelial
cell degeneration and tight
junction damage we identified in this
study needs to be confirmed through further tests.
Rehman and his colleagues
study mechanisms that regulate
cell - to -
cell contacts called adherens
junctions.
The bacterium will be a useful tool for
studying the complex cellular events that occur at
cell - to -
cell junctions,» she added.
From numerous
studies in the Xenopus paired oocyte system and various
cell culture systems, a reasonable assumption might be that if two
cells express the same connexin or innexin and lie in close membrane apposition, gap
junctions will probably be established between them; this assumption has not been investigated rigorously in vivo.