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.
The cell junctions are basically of three types, tight, desmosomal, and gap. We will look at these in more detail in the next section. Histologists classify the tissues according to their physical features, physiologists tend to classify tissues acording to their function.