The pineal organ possesses highly fenestrated capillaries, and is devoid of the so-called blood-brain barrier. The present study indicated that the pineal epithelium of the teleost fish, ayu Plecoglossus altivelis, possesses an unusually thick and convoluted basement membrane (2.2-2.4 microm in width) which is visible even under the light microscope. This pineal basement membrane was observed b...

BASEMENT is a distributed real-time architecture developed within the Swedish Road Transport Informatics Programme. BASEMENT is intended for vehicle internal use in the automotive industry. BASEMENT is holistic in that it covers application development as well as the hardwares and softwares that provide execution and communication support. The key constituents of BASEMENT are: resource sharing ...

Six patients with coexistent antiglomerular basement membrane disease and granular immunoreactants in the glomerular basement membrane and mesangium are discussed. These six patients represent 35% of all patients with antiglomerular basement membrane nephritis examined over 10 years. All patients presented with acute, oliguric renal failure, and rapid deterioration in renal function. In all pat...

The nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans has all the major basement membrane proteins found in vertebrates, usually with a smaller gene family encoding each component. With its powerful forward genetics, optical clarity, simple tissue organization, and the capability to functionally tag most basement membrane components with fluorescent proteins, C. elegans has facilitated novel insights into t...

We introduce a novel approach to three-dimensional gravity inversion in the presence of sediment-basement interface with strong density contrast. This makes it possible incorporate known information about basement depth inversion. It also allows user determine depth-to-basement initial phase. One can then use this constrain final First, generates model based on 3D Cauchy-type integral represent...

The strongest serological correlate for lupus nephritis is antibody to double-stranded DNA, although the mechanism by which anti-DNA antibodies initiate lupus nephritis is unresolved. Most recent reports indicate that anti-DNA must bind chromatin in the glomerular basement membrane or mesangial matrix to form glomerular deposits. Here we determined whether direct binding of anti-DNA antibody to...