Basement membrane as a spatial organizer of polarized epithelia. Exogenous basement membrane reorients pancreatic epithelial tumor cells in vitro.
Ingber DE, Madri JA, Jamieson JD. Basement membrane as a spatial organizer of polarized epithelia. Exogenous basement membrane reorients pancreatic epithelial tumor cells in vitro. American Journal Of Pathology 1986, 122: 129-39. PMID: 3942197, PMCID: PMC1888129.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDistinct membrane domainsEpithelial cell-cell interactionsCell shape changesCell-cell interactionsAcinar tumor cellsMembrane domainsTumor cellsBasement membranePolarized distributionSpatial organizersGolgi complexProtein synthesisIndividual cellsCell surfaceLipid dropletsIntracellular actinPancreatic acinar carcinomaJunctional complexesEpithelial tumor cellsCell contactCytoskeletal alterationsAmniotic basement membraneEpithelial orientationIntact basement membraneZymogen granules