Not to be confused with Retinal. Retinol, also known as Vitamin A1, is a vitamin found in food and used as a dietary supplement. As a supplement it is used to treat and prevent vitamin A deficiency, especially that which is resulting in xerophthalmia.
Desmosomes are anchoring junctions â mechanical couplings scattered like rivets along the sides of adjacent cells to prevent their separation. On the cytoplasmic face of each plasma membrane is a thickening called a plaque.
Cell Junctions. There are three major types of cell junctions: anchoring junctions, tight junctions, and gap junctions. They consist of protein complexes and are found in various tissues of vertebrates, especially muscles and epithelial tissues.t is composed of a pair of E-cadherins. Anchoring junctions are found in tissues that stretch a lot, such as muscles and skin. Anchoring junctions also transduce signals in and out of cells.