Some Terminology
Junctional complexes
- Tight junction, belt junction, spot junction
- Occluding junction, adhering junction, desmosome
- Zonula occludens, Zonula adherens, Macula adherens
Anchoring junctions
- adhering junction, desmosome, hemidesmosome
- cell-cell adherens, cell-matrix adherens (focal contacts), cell-cell IF (desmosomes), cell-matrix IF (hemidesomosomes
Communicating junctions
- gap, chemical synapse, plasmadesmata