“…Members of the pan-retina cell-cell adhesion molecules group are expressed in many cell types in the retina to mediate nonspecific retinal cell adhesion. Examples of this group include the neural cell adhesion molecule (N-CAM) (Daniloff et al, 1986), L1 (Chung et al, 2004), P84 and its interacting partner Integrin Associated Protein (IAP) (Mi et al, 2000), N-cadherin (Malicki et al, 2003), Neuroligin (von Kriegstein and Schmitz, 2003), N-Syndecan (Inatani et al, 2002), and LAMP, an isoform of IgLON (Lodge et al, 2000). Members of the specific cell-cell adhesional molecules group display regional expression patterns in the retina and are likely involved in regional adhesion functions that are important for specific retinal layers.…”