tight junctions

Preferred Label : tight junctions;

MeSH definition : Cell-cell junctions that seal adjacent epithelial cells together, preventing the passage of most dissolved molecules from one side of the epithelial sheet to the other. (Alberts et al., Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2nd ed, p22);

MeSH synonym : occluding junction; occluden, zonula; junction, occluding; junctions, occluding; occluding junctions; zonula occludens; zonula occluden; junction, tight; junctions, tight; tight junction; occludens, zonula;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tight junction;

Details

Origin ID

D019108;

UMLS CUI

C0242358;

Allowable qualifiers
- chemistry [MeSH Qualifier]
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- drug effects [MeSH Qualifier]
- enzymology [MeSH Qualifier]
- genetics [MeSH Qualifier]
- immunology [MeSH Qualifier]
- metabolism [MeSH Qualifier]
- microbiology [MeSH Qualifier]
- parasitology [MeSH Qualifier]
- pathology [MeSH Qualifier]
- physiology [MeSH Qualifier]
- radiation effects [MeSH Qualifier]
- ultrastructure [MeSH Qualifier]
- virology [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Tight Junction Assembly Pathway [NCIt concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Occluding cell junction [FMA entity]
- Tight Junction [NCIt concept]
- Tight junction (cell structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- bicellular tight junction [GO term]
- tight junction [SNOMED Notion]
- tight junction [GO term]
Indexing information
- AmotL1 protein, zebrafish [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- CRB3 protein, human [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- Cldn19 protein, rat [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- Magi1 protein, mouse [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- Mtdh protein, rat [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- NHS protein, mouse [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- PARD3 protein, human [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- PARD3B protein, human [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- Rab13 protein, rat [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- SYMPK protein, human [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- TJAP1 protein, human [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- claudin 16 [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- cldn5a protein, zebrafish [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- zonula occludens toxin, vibrio cholerae [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
Record concept(s)
- tight junctions [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Body Space or Junction [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Occluding cell junction [FMA entity]
- Tight Junction [NCIt concept]
- Tight junction (cell structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- bicellular tight junction [GO term]
- tight junction [GO term]
- tight junction [SNOMED Notion]

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