Coral Springs, FL. Online Offers. Coral Springs, officially chartered July 10, 1963, is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Fort Lauderdale. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a population of 121,096.
tight juncÂ·tion. An intercellular junction between epithelial cells in which the outer leaflets of lateral cell membranes fuse to form a variable number of parallel interweaving strands that greatly reduce transepithelial permeability to macromolecules, solutes, and water through the paracellular route.
Cell Junctions. There are three major types of cell junctions: anchoring junctions, tight junctions, and gap junctions. They consist of protein complexes and are found in various tissues of vertebrates, especially muscles and epithelial tissues. Cell junctions are made from proteins called cell adhesion molecules, which are signal receptors in the cell membrane.