Tags: Anatomical Structure.

The basement membrane is a thin sheet of fibers that underlies the epithelium which lines the cavities and surfaces of organs including skin or the endothelium which lines the interior surface of blood vessels. The name is somewhat misleading in that the basement membrane is not actually a membrane; rather it is a matrix beneath any epithelium.

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Basement membrane"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.