电镜下，可见膜性肾小球肾炎时较暗的电子致密物质弥散分布在增厚的基底膜上。银染所见的“钉突”是沉积物之间的基膜样物质。
By electron microscopy in membranous glomerulonephritis, the darker electron dense immune deposits are seen scattered within the thickened basement membrane. The "spikes" seen with the silver stain represent the intervening matrix of basement membrane between the deposits.
