They associate with type IV collagen containing structures (basement membrane lamina densa and spongy coils) and a special population of fibroblasts which may generate, maintain or anchor rivets to the underlying mesenchymal layer.
Studies of the blebs mice suggest that the proteins form a mutually stabilising complex that acts at the interface between the basement membrane lamina densa and its underlying dermis, and seems to be crucial for epidermal consolidation.
The narrow (50 nm) synapse separates the nerve from the muscle and contains the basement membrane (basal lamina).
The vocal fold (VF) mucosa is a complex multi-layered biological system consisting of a squamous cell epithelium, basement membrane and lamina propria (LP).
In order to egress from the peripheral blood into peripheral tissues, leukocytes have to transverse endothelial barriers, the basement membrane (basal lamina), and parenchymal extracellular matrix (ECM).
Bimodal genes populate GO cellular component categories such as axons, basal lamina, basement membrane, cytoskeleton and extracellular matrix, and they are principally involved in the biological processes for ion transport, synaptic transmission, cytoskeletal organization and cell adhesion (Table 4).
The basal cells forming the floor of the cleft varied between areas in the same section as well as between sections, displaying complete loss of intercellular attachment (tombstones) or showing intact attachment, where all basal cells remaining attached to the basement membrane and lamina propria.
To clarify the development of the subepithelial spaces, the basement membrane, demarcating the lamina propria from the epithelial cells, and the underlying network of myofibroblasts within the villus lamina propria were studied, by staining collagen IV and smooth muscle actin (SMA), respectively [29], [30].
They synthesize and deposit at their bottom, or basal, surfaces an organized complex of matrix materials known as the basal lamina or basement membrane.
The basement membrane, or basal lamina, is a sheet of proteins and other substances to which epithelial cells adhere and that forms a barrier between tissues.
