title: Ultrastructural development features of the human glomerular basement membrane.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: 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