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Vitiligo: Loss of skin's pigment-producing cells could be related to basement membrane disruption
Too much of this enzyme, matrix metalloproteinase 2 (MMP2), might be causing the disturbance to the basement membrane. An experiment using model mice with vitiligo-like depigmentation showed ...
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The vascular basement membrane in brain metastasis
Carbonell, W. S., Ansorge, O., Sibson, N. & Muschel, R. The vascular basement membrane as “soil” in brain metastasis. PLoS One 4, e5857 (2009). An assumption ...