Mechanical stresses in organs and tissues are taken up mainly by fibrous extracellular connective tissue components, namely collagenous, reticular, and elastic fibers. However, same tissues are insufficiently supported in this way and have developed a supporting apparatus of their own, which is quite different from that provided by connective tissue. One component of this supporting apparatus is a system of intracellular fibrils. Well known examples of such intracellular fibrillar systems are the tonofibrils of epidermal cells and the terminal web of intestinal epithelial cells. These intracellular fibrillar systems are often intimately associated with intercellular attachment sites, namely desmosomes and terminal bars.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.115132 |
| Date | January 1963 |
| Creators | Kallenbach, Ernst. |
| Contributors | Clermont, Y. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy. (Department of Health Sciences.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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