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Cell-to-Cell Contacts

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Smooth Muscle

Abstract

Contacts between cells vary in both type and quantity between different smooth muscles, as do the innervation and certain intracellular organelles. The types of contacts which have been described include nexuses or gap junctions, intermediate contacts or desmosome-like attachments, protrusions from one cell into another, and regions of close apposition without membrane or cytoplasmic modification (Figure 1 and Gabella, 1972).

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