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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Physiol (Oxf). 2016 Jul 20;219(2):521–536. doi: 10.1111/apha.12742

Table 2. Morphometric analysis of tight junction ultrastructure.

Tight junction ultrastructure was analyzed using freeze-fracture electron microcopy (*p < 0.05 versus uninduced (Dox+) cells). The analysis between the groups Dox+ and Dox− was blinded

WT#15 WT#15 D65N#16 D65N#16
Dox+ Dox− Dox+ Dox−
(n) (7) (10) (13) (12)
Number of horizontal strands 4.14 ± 0.46 3.50 ± 0.22 3.75 ± 0.25 4.31 ± 0.41
Vertical meshwork depth (nm) 204.3 ± 42.8 196.0 ± 33.0 229.6 ± 37.3 228.1 ± 33.5
Breaks per μm strand length 0.06 ± 0.06 0.14 ± 0.10 0.02 ± 0.02 0.09 ± 0.05
Particle-type/continuous strands % 29/71 70/30* 17/83 46/54*