We know much about how leukocytes traverse the endothelial cell monolayer of post-capillary venules, but far less is known about how they cross the underlying basement membrane, which is the rate ...

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 ...

An IBEC-led study describes the development of an innovative method to control the formation of crypt-like structures and ...

Results: Amniotic membrane (AM) can function in the eye as a basement membrane substitute or as a temporary graft. It has anti-inflammatory and anti-scarring effects and contains growth factors ...

The tumor has now invaded the tissue beyond the basement membrane. Individual cells from the tumor enter into the network of newly formed blood vessels, using these vessels as highways by which ...