Talk:Tight junction

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In the first lead sentence it states "function is to prevent leakage of solutes and water and seals". This grammatically does not make sense as tight junctions do not prevent leakage of "seals". Does anyone have any issues with me altering this?TheDutch1313 (talk) 18:41, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support. As I understand it, the terms zona occludens and tight junction are interchangeable.

Grammar question: I'm no physiologist, but isn't "zonula occludens" singular? The plural should be "zonulae occludentes."

Yes zona occludens and tight junction are interchangeable. I don't know a thing about latin (so somebody with some knowledge should answer the question above) but I have never seen the term "zonulae occludentes" and since it is not used it shouldn't be in the article. --hroest 15:33, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Tight junction" is the same thing as "zonula occludens." The plural of the latter is "zonulae occludentes." These terms are widely available in the tight junction literature.

Great stuff in the French version of this article

if anyone is looking to improve this there is plenty of inspiration. Richiez (talk) 13:00, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Great figures! Bravo

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Alterations to first praragraph

Tight junctions, also known as occluding junctions or zonulae occludentes (singular, zonula occludens) are multiprotein junctional complex whose general function is to prevent leakage of transported solutes and water and seals the paracellular pathway. Tight junctions may also served as leaky pathways by forming selective channels for small cations, anions, or water. Tight junctions are present only in vertebrates. The corresponding junctions that occur in invertebrates are septate junctions.

(I would like to suggest some alterations to the first paragraph to expand upon the general function of tight junctions and include some references from this paper http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06485.x/abstract)

--BearBait 21:14, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Tunicates

The intro says that “Tight junctions are present mostly in vertebrates (with the exeption of Tunicates).” However, Tunicates are invertebrates.

Clarify?

CielProfond (talk) 20:15, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't found anything within recent years to specify this. There was one research article I was able to look at from 1986. I think we should just exclude this part until we can get more citations. JW302 (talk) 17:46, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

JAM

The link that leads JAM proteins only brings it to one particular JAM. There is another article that would be much better. Junctional adhesion molecule JW302 (talk) 15:53, 28 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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