… to thickening of the glomerular capillary basement membrane but also to the expansion of
… basement membrane. Several mechanisms are implicated in the pathogenesis of diabetic …

… thickness in 50 normal, 51 diabetic, and 30 … average capillary basement membrane width
of diabetic patients is over twice that of normal subjects; moreover, such basement membrane …

… In conclusion, our observations are consistent with the thesis that capillary BMT associated
with diabetes mellitus is in some way related to insulin deficiency (relative or absolute). The …

… lary basement membrane changes in diabetes and subsequently address the above questions.
DIABETES … in 20 identical twin pairs discordant for insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. …

… values for width of capillary basement membrane and glycosylated hemoglobin level. The
base-line width of the basement membrane in the diabetic patients was significantly greater …

… of muscle capillary basement membrane thickening could be a … diabetic (prediabetics): (1)
served to heighten interest greatly in capillary basement membrane changes in diabetes, and (…

… of capillary basement membranes is widely accepted as the ultrastructural hallmark of
diabetic … regarding (1) the prevalence of capillary basement-membrane thickening (CBMT)* in …

… Vascular basement membrane (BM) thickening has been hailed over half a century as the …
lesion in diabetic microangiopathy, and represents an early ultrastructural change in diabetic …

… It might seem unusual that we did not observe a significant relationship between duration
of diabetes and muscle capillary basement membrane width. However, the previously …

… muscle capillary basement membrane and the glycemia level in the light of data obtained
prospectively in 102 young insulin-dependent Type I diabetic patients. Membrane thickness …