Tight junctions and human diseases

Medical Electron Microscopy

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 147-156

  Sawada, Norimasa ^a   Murata, Masaki ^a   Kikuchi, Keisuke ^a   Osanai, Makoto ^a   Tobioka, Hirotoshi ^a   Kojima, Takashi ^a   Chiba, Hideki ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Barrier function; Claudin; Drug delivery; Fence function; Human diseases; Occludin; Tight junctions; ZO 1

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTIMETASTATIC AGENT; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CLAUDIN; CLAUDIN 3; CLAUDIN 4; CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; JUNCTIONAL ADHESION MOLECULE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OCCLUDIN; PROTEIN ZO1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; APICAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CANCER CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CELL POLARITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURFACE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOSKELETON; DENDRITIC CELL; DIARRHEA; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; EDEMA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; ION TRANSPORT; JAUNDICE; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TIGHT JUNCTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; WATER TRANSPORT;

DEAFNESS; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

EID: 0142026558     PISSN: 09184287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00795-003-0219-y     Document Type: Review

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