DeCS

Descriptor English:

Desmosomes

Descriptor Spanish:

Desmosomas

Spanish from Spain

Descriptor

desmosomas

Scope note:

Tipo de unión que vincula a una célula con su vecina. Es una de las numerosas regiones diferenciadas que se producen, por ejemplo, donde las membranas citoplasmáticas de las células epiteliales adyacentes están estrechamente yuxtapuestas. Consta de una región circular de cada membrana yuxtapuesta con los microfilamentos intracelulares asociados y un material intercelular el cual podría incluir, por ejemplo, mucopolisacáridos.(Glick, Glossary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2d ed).

Descriptor Portuguese:

Desmossomos

Descriptor French:

Desmosomes

Tree number(s):

A11.284.149.165.420.297

RDF Unique Identifier:

https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003896

Scope note:

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)

Allowable Qualifiers:

CH composition chimique
CL classification
DE effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques
EN enzymologie
GE génétique
IM immunologie
ME métabolisme
MI microbiologie
PA anatomopathologie
PH physiologie
PS parasitologie
RE effets des radiations
TR transplantation
UL ultrastructure
VI virologie

DeCS ID:

3916

Unique ID:

D003896

Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL):

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Date Established:

1972/01/01

Date of Entry:

1999/01/01

Revision Date:

2000/06/22