Shaianne Stein

2 months ago | biorxiv.org | Simon Fraser |Shaianne Stein |Lorena Braid

AbstractBasement membrane, the specialized extracellular matrix (ECM) that compartmentalizes endothelial and epithelial cells, is the final frontier in bioengineering. The fibrillar collagens (Col I and Col III) of the interstitial matrix are commonly used for tissue modeling, but the networking collagens that scaffold the basement membrane (human Col IV and Col VI) remain elusive.