36+ Gap Junctions Diagram Pictures. Gap junctions allow the exchange of ions, second messengers, and small metabolites between adjacent cells and are formed by two unrelated protein families, the pannexins and connexins. Click pictures for new window with figure and legend, click again for high resolution image.
Learn how gap analyses work. Click pictures for new window with figure and legend, click again for high resolution image. Gap defines these and other fundamental operations in a standard, universally understood manner.
Diagram illustrating gap junction channels and hemichannels.
What is the actual relationship? Gap defines these and other fundamental operations in a standard, universally understood manner. Gap junctions are cylindrical channels between animal cells that let molecules and ions pass from gap junctions form when two opposing connexons, or hemichannels, join across the intracellular. Gap junctions are also called communicating junctions, macula communicans, or nexuses.