Ett slags kopplingspunkter som binder en cell till en annan. Ett av ett flertal differentierade regioner som, t ex, återfinns där cytoplasmamembranen hos celler intill varandra har nära kontakt. Den består av ett cirkelrunt område på varje membran, tillsammans med intracellularä mikrotrådar och en substans mellan cellerna som kan innehålla mukopolysaccharider. Syn. desmosomer.
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)
Desmosomer
Desmosome