Biopsy specimens with MLPTC have also shown thickening of the PTC basement membrane (ptcbm) during light microscopy, a technique that is faster to perform and allows a larger area of the tissue to ...

Carbonell, W. S., Ansorge, O., Sibson, N. & Muschel, R. The vascular basement membrane as “soil” in brain metastasis. PLoS One 4, e5857 (2009). An assumption ...

Too much of this enzyme, matrix metalloproteinase 2 (MMP2), might be causing the disturbance to the basement membrane. An experiment using model mice with vitiligo-like depigmentation showed ...

The newer, wilder cells created by another mutation are able to push their way through the epithelial tissue's basement membrane, which is a meshwork of protein that normally creates a barrier.