Endothelial cell junctions.
In the course of a freeze-cleave study on intercellular junctions in the regenerating rat liver, we observed an unusual array of intramembranous particles located in regions of contact between endothelial cells lining the hepatic sinusoids. These arrays were characterized by an accumulation of particles which resembled a zonula occludens in their linear deployment but differed in that the contact regions were composed of individual particles which remained separated from each other by regular particle-free intervals.
D000818:Animals; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000648:ultrastructure; D004727:Endothelium / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D005614:Freeze Fracturing; D007365:Intercellular Junctions / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008099:Liver / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008115:Liver Regeneration; D051381:Rats