A weirder variant is the nephrocyte-honestly I have no idea what it's doing in the esophagus ( see ) but it is said to be homologous to a podocyte . talk ) 10 : 33, 27 March 2016 ( UTC)
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The most notable examples of basement membranes is the glomerular basement membrane of the kidney, by the fusion of the basal lamina from the endothelium of glomerular capillaries and the podocyte basal lamina, and between lung alveoli and pulmonary capillaries, by the fusion of the basal lamina of the lung alveoli and of the basal lamina of the lung capillaries, which is where oxygen and diffusion happens.
