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Descriptor English: Adherens Junctions
Descriptor Spanish: Uniones Adherentes
Descriptor uniones adherentes
Entry term(s) zónula adherens
zónula adherente
Scope note: Puntos de anclaje donde se interconecta el CITOESQUELETO de células adyacentes. Están formadas por áreas especializadas de la membrana plasmática donde haces del CITOESQUELETO DE ACTINA se enlazan mediante conectores transmembrana, CADHERINAS, que a su vez se unen, a través de sus dominios extracelulares, a las cadherinas de las membranas celulares adyacentes. Cuando las células se disponen en placas, éstas uniones forman cinturones de adhesión (zónula adherens) que rodean totalmente la célula.
Descriptor Portuguese: Junções Aderentes
Descriptor French: Jonctions adhérentes
Entry term(s): Adherens Junction
Adherens, Zonula
Junction, Adherens
Junctions, Adherens
Zonula Adherens
Tree number(s): A11.284.149.165.420.020
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D022005
Scope note: Anchoring points where the CYTOSKELETON of neighboring cells are connected to each other. They are composed of specialized areas of the plasma membrane where bundles of the ACTIN CYTOSKELETON attach to the membrane through the transmembrane linkers, CADHERINS, which in turn attach through their extracellular domains to cadherins in the neighboring cell membranes. In sheets of cells, they form into adhesion belts (zonula adherens) that go all the way around a cell.
Allowable Qualifiers: CH chemistry
CL classification
DE drug effects
EN enzymology
GE genetics
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PA pathology
PH physiology
PS parasitology
RE radiation effects
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Intercellular Junctions (1984-2000)
Public MeSH Note: 2001
History Note: 2001
DeCS ID: 35268
Unique ID: D022005
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Date Established: 2001/01/01
Date of Entry: 2000/06/21
Revision Date: 2011/07/01
Adherens Junctions - Preferred
Concept UI M0356397
Scope note Anchoring points where the CYTOSKELETON of neighboring cells are connected to each other. They are composed of specialized areas of the plasma membrane where bundles of the ACTIN CYTOSKELETON attach to the membrane through the transmembrane linkers, CADHERINS, which in turn attach through their extracellular domains to cadherins in the neighboring cell membranes. In sheets of cells, they form into adhesion belts (zonula adherens) that go all the way around a cell.
Preferred term Adherens Junctions
Entry term(s) Adherens Junction
Junction, Adherens
Junctions, Adherens
Zonula Adherens - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0356433
Preferred term Zonula Adherens
Entry term(s) Adherens, Zonula



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