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Hypoblast and definitive endoblast derived from young chick embryos were explanted and grown for 24 h in culture. The junctional complexes which characterise these tissues were studied on freeze-fracture replicas and thin sections. Cell membranes of the hypoblast displayed tight junctions only, disposed in randomly arranged strands or narrow belts which included many discontinuous strands. The definitive endoblast showed tight and gap junctions as well as desmosomes in close association with the tight junctions. It is suggested that the differences between the two types of tissue may be related to cell cohesiveness, which appears to be relatively low in the hypoblast and high in the definitive endoblast.
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Stolinski, C., Sanders, E.J., Bellairs, R. et al. Cell junctions in explanted tissues from early chick embryos. Cell Tissue Res. 221, 395–404 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00216743
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