Thickened patches of cell membranes that bind adjacent cells together.
An area of contact between two adjacent cells, occurring particularly in epithelia. The cell membranes at a desmosome are thickened and fine fibers (tonofibrils) extend from the desmosome into the cytoplasm.
A cellular junction made of glycoprotein that provides attachment and stability between epithelial cells and in the intercalated disks of cardiac muscle.