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Hemidesmosomes

Known as: Hemidesmosoma, Hemidesmosome 
A cell-substrate junction (attachment structure) found in epithelial cells that links intermediate filaments to extracellular matrices via… 
National Institutes of Health

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Cell surfaceDermal-epidermal junctionERBB2 Interacting Protein, HumanEpithelium

Broader (1)

Focal Adhesions

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epidermal attachment structure

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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
A dynamic podosome-like structure of epithelial cells.
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Intestinal restitution: progression of actin cytoskeleton rearrangements and integrin function in a model of epithelial wound healing.
1998
1998
Downregulation of the β4 integrin subunit in prostatic carcinoma and prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Formation of hemidesmosomes in cells of a transformed murine mammary tumor cell line and mechanisms involved in adherence of these cells to laminin and kalinin.
Keratinocytes attach to an underlying basement membrane by adhesion junctions called hemidesmosomes. We have characterized a cell… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
The internal affairs of an integrin.
Review
1991
Review
1991
Intermediate filament-plasma membrane interactions.
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Anchoring filaments of the amphibian epidermal-dermal junction traverse the basal lamina entirely from the plasma membrane of hemidesmosomes to the dermis.
An electron microscopical study of the epidermal-dermal junction in the axolotl and adult Rana pipiens has been carried out. This… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
The junctions of normal human epidermis. A freeze-fracture study.
1974
1974
An ultrastructural analysis of cell and matrix differentiation during early limb development in Xenopus laevis.
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Merkel cells in sheep epidermis during fetal development.
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