MORPHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF GAP-JUNCTIONS BETWEEN BONE-CELLS
MORPHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF GAP-JUNCTIONS BETWEEN BONE-CELLS
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DOI:
10.1007/bf02409482
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
DOTY, SB
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作者:
DOTY, SB
Cell membrane specializations occur at contact sites between adjacent osteoblasts and osteoblasts and osteocytes. These junctions are important in preventing the extracellular movement of material around bone cells. Certain small proteins circumvent the osteoblast population and rapidly penetrate the canalicular-osteocyte system. Here lanthanum colloid was used as an extracellular marker; the lanthanum readily penetrated the bone cell junctions and the extracellular space of bone. Morphologically, these junctions were not tight or occluding structures but resembled gap junctions. These gap junctions contained elements which formed intercellular bridges between adjacent cells but also maintained a 2-nm space between cells that contained extracellular fluid. These gap junctions may have an important function in the control or coordination of bone cell activity throughout a given bone volume.