What does BM stand for?

Basement Membrane

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If the basement membrane misbehaves, then the cell misbehaves," comments Raghu Kalluri, a matrix biology specialist at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

New bond in the basement tethers body's tissues together: ...

The illustrated chapters include fixation and processing, microtomy, frozen sections, hematoxylin and eosin, Gram stain, myobacteria, Heliobacter pylori, spirochetes, fungi, trichrome stains, reticulin, elastin stains, basement membranes, mucin stains, amyloid, and immunohistochemistry.

Guide to good slide preparation

They look remarkably like a structure seen in cancer cells called invadopodia that are believed to have the same function, but modeling this part of metastasis in the lab has proven impossible so far because nobody has figured out how to make a basement membrane in a dish.

Worm study provides new model to study invasive cancer

He reported two cases of an anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) antibody-negative, Goodpasture's-like alveolar hemorrhage syndrome in 22-year-old women who were involved in the use and manufacture of methamphetamine.

Meth tie to rare disease a public health concern

In vertebrates collagen IV is recognized by cell surface receptors and interacts with other basement membrane components.

RNAi characterization of a putatuve collagen IV cell surface receptor

Tissue-bound autoantibodies are directed against one or more components of the basement membrane in an affected individual.

Oral cicatricial pemphigoid

They are defined by their location within the basement membrane of capillaries.

Characterization of the cardiovasculature pericytes: cytokines

Goodpasture's syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by pulmonary hemorrhage, glomerulonephritis, and antiglomerular basement membrane antibodies.

Characteristics and outcomes of patients with Goodpasture's syndrome