Ependymal cells

Encyclopedia of Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1133-1140

  Wolburg, H ^a   Wolburg Buchholz, K ^a   Mack, A F ^a   Reichenbach, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aquaporins; Astrocytes; Blood brain barrier; Blood cerebrospinal fluid barrier; Choroid plexus; Circumventricular organs; Ependymoglia; Ion transporters; M ller (glial) cells; Orthogonal arrays of particles; Periventricular matrix zone; Radial glia; Retinal pigment epithelial cells; Tanycytes; Tight junctions

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649179531     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045046-9.01001-9     Document Type: Chapter

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