Human Biology Custom Edition
Human Biology Custom Edition
11th Edition
ISBN: 9781337631532
Author: Cecie Starr, Beverly McMillan
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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To list: The type of cell junctions and their functions.

Introduction: The attachment point between the cells in a tissue that binds the cells firmly together, ceases the leakage, and serves as the communication channels is known as cell junction. Cell junction holds the cells together inside a tissue and allows the cellular communication inside or outside the tissue.

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