Ultrastructural development features of the human glomerular basement membrane.
In the human embryo, the basement glomerular membrane appears early, at about ten weeks of age. The study of 36 human embryos aged 8-20 weeks revealed many arguments suggesting the epithelial origin of the basement membrane of the visceral capsula.
D001485:Basement Membrane / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D004847:Epithelial Cells; D005920:Glomerular Mesangium / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006801:Humans; D007678:Kidney Glomerulus / Q000196:embryology*; D008854:Microscopy, Electron