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Animal cells are mostly bound together by what are known as intercellular junctions.

There are three types of cell junctions: anchoring junctions, tight junctions and gap junctions.

Of these, anchoring junctions, which include adherens junction, desmosomes and hemidesmosomes, help bind the animal cells together, in an extracellular matrix.

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