• An intercellular cleft is a channel between two cells through which molecules may travel and gap junctions and tight junctions may be present. Most notably...
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    fluid and blood via diffusion across gaps in capillary walls called intercellular clefts; thus, the blood and interstitial fluid are in dynamic equilibrium...
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    smaller molecules, such as water and ions, to pass through their intercellular clefts. Lipid-soluble molecules can passively diffuse through the endothelial...
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    directly beneath the dermal-epidermal junction. Achantholytic: Intercellular clefts or lacunae in the lowermost epidermal layer that result from anaplastic...
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  • Within the blood islands, lumens begin to appear by the growth of intercellular clefts. The flattened cells at the periphery form the endothelium. Mesenchymal...
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  • allowing only small molecules like ions or water to diffuse through the intercellular clefts (the gaps between the endothelial cells). In fenestrated and sinusoidal...
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  • granulosum that facilitates intercellular adhesion between keratinocytes. The resulting vesicle is an intraepidermal cleft located above the basal cells...
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    synaptic cleft. In vertebrates, motor neurons release acetylcholine (ACh), a small molecule neurotransmitter, which diffuses across the synaptic cleft and...
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  • GABA from glucose. Discoveries of glutamate and glutamine pools within intercellular compartments led to suggestions of the glutamate–glutamine cycle working...
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    neurotransmitters from the presynaptic axon terminal into the synaptic cleft, as in a chemical synapse. The excitatory neurotransmitters, the most common...
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    between them across the walls of capillaries, through pores and capillary clefts. Interstitial fluid consists of a water solvent containing sugars, salts...
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    authoritative information about signaling pathways in human cells. Intercellular+Signaling+Peptides+and+Proteins at the U.S. National Library of Medicine...
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    uniform intercellular space of 2-4 nm. In this way hemichannels in the membrane of each cell are aligned with one another forming an intercellular communication...
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    Acantholysis is the loss of intercellular connections, such as desmosomes, resulting in loss of cohesion between keratinocytes, seen in diseases such...
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  • initially entirely of SNARE proteins, the pore is easily able to undergo intercellular regulation, making fluctuation and "kiss-and-run" mechanisms easily...
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    cells, with the majority of these interactions occurring in the lateral intercellular gap between basal cells. Basal cells have important health implications...
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    with multiple components of T-cell receptor (TCR) complex, mediates intercellular signaling pathways and negatively regulates its function. HAVCR2/TIM-3...
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    non-homologous end joining used mainly at later developmental stages Intercellular communication between developing neurons and microglia is also indispensable...
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    includes degeneration of stratified squamous epithelial cells, the loss of intercellular connections and inflammatory infiltrate around the capillaries of the...
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    which they are expressed. These subsequent congenital disorders, including cleft lip and exencephaly, vary greatly in their severity and impact on the quality...
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    binds halfway between the nucleotide binding pocket and the actin binding cleft of myosin, predominantly in an actin detached conformation. This type of...
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    synaptic cleft and binds to ACh receptors on the post-synaptic membrane, relaying the signal from the nerve. AChE is concentrated in the synaptic cleft, where...
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    The tissue is skin from a patient with Pemphigus vulgaris. Note the intercellular IgG deposits in the epidermis and the early intraepidermal vesicle caused...
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    and targets other pancreatic cells. Juxtacrine signaling is a type of intercellular communication that is transmitted via oligosaccharide, lipid, or protein...
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    a mitogen for epithelial cells. Stimulation of IL-8 production and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 expression". J. Immunol. 156 (1): 275–83. doi:10...
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    Andrei I.; Boehncke, Wolf-Henning (2023-03-17). "Inflammation modulates intercellular adhesion and mechanotransduction in human epidermis via ROCK2". iScience...
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  • plasmapheresis, IVIG Levitan, Irwin; Kaczmarek, Leonard (August 19, 2015). "Intercellular communication". The Neuron: Cell and Molecular Biology (4th ed.). New...
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    transported throughout the neuron and can release peptides at the synaptic cleft, cell body, and along the axon. A single animal may use hundreds of different...
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  • Typically lenticular (lens-shaped) porous tissue in bark with large intercellular spaces that allows direct exchange of gases between the internal tissues...
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    ISBN 978-0-521-62634-7. Levitan, Irwin; Kaczmarek, Leonard (19 August 2015). "Intercellular communication". The Neuron: Cell and Molecular Biology (4th ed.). New...
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