Tight Junctions

Introduction: Evolution of Ideas on the Tight Junction (Marcelino Cereijido) Anatomy of the Tight Junction: Vertebrates (James L. Madara). Anatomy of the Tight Junction: Invertebrates (Nancy J. Lane). Tight Junction Permeability to Ions and Water (Luis Reuss). The Relationship Between Structure and Function of the Tight Junctions (Lorenza Gonzales-Mariscal). The Molecular Structure of the Tight Junction (James Melvin Anderson and Bruce R. Stevenson). Cell Adhesion Molecules in Epithelia (Barry Gumbiner). Relationships Between the Tight Junction and the Cytoskeleton (James L. Madara). Intracellular Signals in the Assembly and Sealing of Tight Junctions (Maria Susana Balda). Calcium and Tight Junctions (Ruben Gerardo Contreras, Arturo Ponce, and Juan Jose Bolivar). Physiological and Pathological Factors Affecting the Tight Junction (Carl J. Bentzel, Carlos E. Palant, and Michael Fromm). Teleost Osmoregulation: Changes in the Tight Junction in Response to the Salinity of the Environment (Karl J. Karnaky, Jr.). Tight Junctions and Polarity of Lipids (Gerrit van Meer, Wouter van't Hof, and Ida van Genderen). Tight Junction and Apical/Basolateral Polarity (Carlos A. Rabito). Mechanisms Involved in Spatial Localization of Na+,K+-Atpase in Polarized Epithelial Cells (Rachael W. Hammerton and W. James Nelson). Protein Targeting Pathways and Sorting Signals in Epithelial Cells (Enrique Rodriguez-Boulan, Michael P. Lisanti, Sharon K. Powell, Thierry Gilbert, and Andre Le Bivic). Biosynthesis of the Tight Junction (Lorenza Gonzales-Mariscal). Proteases and the Tight Junction (Sylvie Polak-Charcon). Sertoli-Sertoli Tight Junctions and the Blood-Testis Barrier (Stephen Byers and R-Mark Pelletier). Endothelial Tight Junctions (Phillip D. Bowman, Richard R. Shivers, and Katerina Dorovini-Zis). The Ability of Leukocytes to Cross Tight Junctions (Eva B. Cramer). Tight Junctions in the Lung (E.E. Schneeberger and R.D. Lynch). Index. c. 384 pp., 161 illus., 7x10, due November 1991, ISBN 0-8493-8850-3.