PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Yesus, Yohannes W AU - Esterly, James A AU - Stuhlman, Robert A AU - Townsend, John F TI - Significant Muscle Capillary Basement Membrane Thickening in Spontaneously Diabetic Mystromys Albicaudatus AID - 10.2337/diab.25.5.444 DP - 1976 May 01 TA - Diabetes PG - 444--449 VI - 25 IP - 5 4099 - http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/25/5/444.short 4100 - http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/25/5/444.full SO - Diabetes1976 May 01; 25 AB - Skeletal muscle capillary basement membrane thickness was determined in age- and sex-matched normal and spontaneously diabetic Mystromys albicaudatus. In nondiabetic animals the average basement membrane thickness was 482.6 ± 48.7 Å as against 779.0 ± 319.9 Å in the diabetic ones. This difference was statistically significant at P<0.005.