Basement membranes as the regulatory system between epithelial cell connections and connective tissue
Heine, H.
Gegenbaurs Morphologisches Jahrbuch 132(3): 325-332
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0016-5840 PMID: 3743995 Document Number: 270079
Basement membranes develop by an interaction between epithelium and underlying mesenchymal. Basement membranes are to an great extend involved in the metabolic induced informational exchange between these 2 compartments. Informational selectivity is not only given with the construction of basement membranes. By redox systems like ascorbic acid/dehydroascorbic acid, preferentially located in basement membranes, the capability exists of scavenging free oxygen radicals on the border line between epithelia and connective tissue. This seems to be a very important factor in coupling the biorhythms between epithelia and connective tissue.