A type of junction that attaches one cell to its neighbor. One of a number of differentiated regions which occur, for example, where the cytoplasmic membranes of adjacent epithelial cells are closely apposed. It consists of a circular region of each membrane together with associated intracellular microfilaments and an intercellular material which may include, for example, mucopolysaccharides. (From Glick, Glossary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1990; Singleton & Sainsbury, Dictionary of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, 2d ed)
    

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Exfoliative toxin A

Exfoliative toxin B

Mitotic spindle in a kidney cell

Origin and continuity of cell organelles / edited by J. Reinert and H. Ursprung ; with contributions of R. Baxter [and others].

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Exfoliative toxin A

Exfoliative toxin B

Mitotic spindle in a kidney cell

Origin and continuity of cell organelles / edited by J. Reinert and H. Ursprung ; with contributions of R. Baxter [and others].