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.
A desmosome is a space that opens between two cells; intermediate filaments from each cytosol pass through the space to anchor the cells together. A tight junction is merely stitching that holds cells together, but it does not allow as much mechanical action as desmosomes do.