Reichert's membrane
An nonvascular extraembryonic basement membrane that forms on the inner surface of the trophectoderm during placenta morphogenesis and is secreted by the distal parietal endoderm; required for the maternofetal exchange of nutrients and is important for the postgastrulation development[MP]. a thick multilayered basement membrane between the parietal endoderm cells and the trophoblast cells [ https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00184752 ]
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- membranous layer
- develops_from some parietal endoderm
- part of some entire extraembryonic component
- surrounded_by some endoderm
- surrounded_by some trophoblast