What are capillaries that have endothelial cells joined by “tight junctions” and have “intercellular clefts” between cells called?
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B: An intercellular cleft is the space between adjacent cells. A tight junction is where the lipid portions of the membranes of adjacent cells are bound together preventing water and solutes rom passing between the cells.
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