Antibody Staining in the Basement Membrane

Antibody Staining in the Basement Membrane

Steffen Rickelt

MIT Department of Biology, Koch Institute at MIT

This image shows a section through a human liver biopsy demonstrating hepatocytes (light brown) and bile duct cells (dark brown) as well as collagen IV (red), a type of collagen primarily found in the basement membrane, a thin, fibrous membrane that separates epithelial and endothelial cells from the surrounding connective tissue.

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