Talk:Cell junction

paracellular

What does "paracellular" mean? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.61.80.50 (talk • contribs)

para - around/surrounding something, therefore referring to the space immediately around surrounding the cell. -- Serephine ♠ talk - 10:57, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

desmosome in the graph

The desmosome is the illustration is shown to connect cells or cell to ECM with cadherin and actin filaments. However, when you try to search desmosome in detail, it is actually connecting cells or cell to ECM by keratin. Keratin is quite different from actin in cytoskeleton definitions, there should be something wrong within that illustration. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcalex (talk • contribs)

Desmosomes are usually connected to actin, not keratin, check The Cell by Alberts for more details. 213.66.250.245 (talk) 08:25, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

This article is in very bad shape

I am no expert on this topic, and I found it nearly impossible to take away any information from this article. The "Gap Junctions" section is simply incomplete, it does not even contain a single correct sentence, but given that there is this section I would also hope for sections on the other types of junctions. If there is no expert who could do this, then I would propose to remove the questionable sub-sections and expand the first part.Rubybrian (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 11:48, 4 January 2011 (UTC).

You are right that there is no need for the section, at least at such a shape. It conteined no information. (==Gap Junctions== Intercellular communication via Connexons). I removed it. Reo ⁺ 03:02, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

multicellular organism

The text as it is contains sentence: type of structure that exists within the tissue of a multicellular organism. I am convinced that it is quite misleading. It implies that for all the multicellular organisms in order to function - there must be some type of junction complexes .

It is not so.

I am not an expert for other kingdoms, but at least for plants: there are no junctions.

For example instead of gap junctions there are plasmodesmata, function of the other two junction is not needed due cell wall properties.

Is someone knowlidgeble to which multicellular organsims those structures can be asigned? Animals? - sure. Fungi? ??? Multicellular algae (->red, green, Brown brown)? (probably not). It would be best to specify it in intro exactly. Reo ⁺ 03:02, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

C. elegans apical junction

There is a link in [C. elegans apical junction] leading to Cenorhabditis elegans where nothing is memntioned about the [apical junction].Leon Calahoras e-mail calahoras.leonicos@gmail.com

Sorry, that was a bad link on my part, so I have changed it. Maybe this link and this link might provide more information about what you are looking for? I am not confident in adding information from either of these links to the main article page though as I do not understand them well enough, feel free to improve the main article if you think you can. -Zynwyx (talk) 13:54, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

"Intercellular bridges" they are not

I appears somewhere along the line that the idea that gap junctions join the cytoplasms of neighboring cell and so form intercellular bridges means that they are called "intercellular bridges". This is not the case. "Intercellular bridge" or "cell bridge" is a specific type of structure that looks nothing like any of the junctions described in the article. I'll remove the reference and redirect to this article as it leads people astray. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tgru001 (talk • contribs) 02:52, 17 February 2023 (UTC)