Tight junctions

{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-006382",
  "term": "Tight junctions",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "Cell-cell junctions that seal adjacent epithelial cells together, preventing the passage of most dissolved molecules from one side of the epithelial sheet to the other.",
  "synonyms": [
    "occluding junctions",
    "zonula occludens"
  ],
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "intercellular junctions",
    "occludins",
    "cell polarity"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Medical Subject Headings",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "uniones estrechas"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/tight-junctions/"
}