Renal basement membrane components. Basement membranes are specialized extracellular matrices found throughout the body. They surround all epithelia, endothelia, peripheral nerves, muscle cells ...

Like all basement membranes, it contains four main components: type IV collagen, laminin, nidogen, and heparan sulfate proteoglycans. Different isoforms of these large molecules are produced.

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 ...