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COLD SPRING HARBOR PERSPECTIVES IN MEDICINE
Volume 2, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a006528
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- Fondation Leducq Transatlantic Network of Excellence
- Association for International Cancer Research UK [07-0068]
- European Community [LSHG-CT-2004-503573, 202213, 223098, NMP3-LA-2008-214402]
- Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Italian Ministry of Health
- CARI-PLO Foundation [2008.2463]
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Besides intercellular recognition and adhesion, which are primarily performed by the transmembrane components, many of the molecules associated in endothelial cell-to-cell junctions initiate or regulate signal transmission. Clustering of molecules at junctions has the consequence of allowing new local interactions to direct specific cellular responses with crucial effects on the physiology and pathology of the endothelium and, more generally, of the vascular system. The implication is that cell-to-cell junctions could be envisaged as molecular targets for different types of therapeutic intervention. These could be directed to cure the defects of endothelial junctions that accompany several pathologies or to reversibly open them in a controlled way for the efficient delivery of drugs to the tissues. These aims can become more and more approachable as the knowledge of the molecular organization and function of endothelial junctions increases and their organ and tissue specificities become understood.
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