Direct contact of a cell with a neighboring cell. Most such junctions are too small to be resolved by light microscopy, but they can be visualized by conventional or freeze-fracture electron microscopy, both of which show that the interacting CELL MEMBRANE and often the underlying CYTOPLASM and the intervening EXTRACELLULAR SPACE are highly specialized in these regions. (From Alberts et al., Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2d ed, p792)
    

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Junctional complexes of epithelial cells.

Struktura i funk︠t︡sii mezhkletochnykh kontaktov / pod redak︠t︡sieĭ V. I. Arkhipenko, A. G. Malenkova ; [kollektiv avtorov V. I. Arkhipenko and others].

Adipose tissue : lipids and the intercellular matrix / volume editors, L. Robert and A.M. Robert.

Gap junctions / edited by Michael V.L. Bennett, David C. Spray.

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Junctional complexes of epithelial cells.

Struktura i funk︠t︡sii mezhkletochnykh kontaktov / pod redak︠t︡sieĭ V. I. Arkhipenko, A. G. Malenkova ; [kollektiv avtorov V. I. Arkhipenko and others].

Adipose tissue : lipids and the intercellular matrix / volume editors, L. Robert and A.M. Robert.

Gap junctions / edited by Michael V.L. Bennett, David C. Spray.