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Abstract
The human glomerular basement membrane belongs to the collagen family of proteins. It contains about 7 percent carbohydrate, half of which occurs as glucosylgalactose disaccharide units linked to hydroxylysine. Glomeruli from diabetics contain increased amounts of basement membrane material. In addition, these membranes show a distict chemical alteration c haracterized by a significant decrease in lysine, accoumpanied by an equivalent increase in hydroxylysine and hydroxylysine-linked disaccharide units.Entities:
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Year: 1970 PMID: 5436594 DOI: 10.1126/science.168.3931.596
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728