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Tight Junctions seal the luminal border of epithelial cells and restrict the passage of substances across the paracellular route. The resistance offered by this pathway is variable and depends on the number of strands, the length of the intercellular cleft, and the possible existence of compartmentalized flickering channels spanning the strands.
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Cereijido et al. (1989) studied this question.
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