کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
8462242 1549026 2010 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Gap and tight junctions in the formation of feather branches: A descriptive ultrastructural study
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی بیولوژی سلول
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Gap and tight junctions in the formation of feather branches: A descriptive ultrastructural study
چکیده انگلیسی
The present study has focused on the distribution and ultrastructure of gap and tight junctions responsible for the formation of the barb/barbule branching in developing feathers using immunocytochemical detection. Apart from desmosomes, both tight and gap junctions are present between differentiating barb/barbule cells and during keratinization. While gap junctions are rare along the perimeter of these cells, tight junctions tend to remain localized in nodes joining barbule cells and between barb cells of the ramus. Occludin and connexin-26 but not connexin-43 have been detected between barb medullary, barb cortical and barbule cells during formation of barbs. Gap junctions are present in supportive cells located in the vicinity of barbule cells and destined to degenerate, but no close junctions are present between supportive and barb/barbule cells. Close junctions mature into penta-laminar junctions that are present between mature barb/barbule cells. Immunolabeling for occludin and Cx26 is rare along these cornified junctions. The junctions allow barb/barbule cells to remain connected until feather-keratin form the mature corneous syncytium that constitutes the barbs. A discussion of the role of gap and tight junctions during feather morphogenesis is presented.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer Anzeiger - Volume 192, Issue 4, 20 August 2010, Pages 251-258
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