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Basal Membrane
(redirected from Basolateral membrane)

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basal membrane [′bā·səl ′mem‚brān]
(anatomy)
The tissue beneath the pigment layer of the retina that forms the outer layer of the choroid.

Basal Membrane 

in vertebrate animals and man, the boundary film between the epithelium (or endothelium) and underlying loose connective tissue from which it is formed. The basal membrane consists of a diffuse substance and the fibers embedded in it. It serves to strengthen the epithelial layer of cells and prevents its cells from shifting deep into the connective tissue. Impairment of the basal membrane causes the epithelium to grow into the underlying connective tissue (for example, in chronic inflammation and malignant degeneration). The fact that the basal membrane is permeable to some metabolites indicates that it plays a definite part in metabolism.



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Tubule organic anion accumulation study Isolated PTSs were incubated in Krebs phosphate buffer containing 50 [micro]M PAH, at 37[micro]C for 1 hour and 1 mM Probenecide (an inhibitor of OATs localized at the basolateral membrane of the tubule cells and transport PAH into the cells) was added to the incubation medium at the 45th min to prevent its reverse release during washing processes.
edu/verklab Intestinal fluid secretion, as occurs in cholera, involves chloride secretion across enterocytes into the gut lumen through apical membrane chloride channels and the basolateral membrane Na(+)/K(+)/2-Clcontransporter (NKCC).
 
 
 
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