Tanycyte-like cells form a blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier in the circumventricular organs of the mouse brain

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 521, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 3389-3405

  Langlet, Fanny ^a,b,c   Mullier, Amandine ^a,b,c   Bouret, Sebastien G ^a,b,c,d   Prevot, Vincent ^a,b,c   Dehouck, Benedicte ^a,b,c,e  

^a JEAN PIERRE AUBERT RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

^b NEUROBESE International Associated Laboratory   (France)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ D'ARTOIS   (France)

Author keywords

Area postrema; Ependymocytes; Organum vasculosum laminae terminalis; Subcommissural organ; Subfornical organ; Tight junction protein

Indexed keywords

CLAUDIN 1; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OCCLUDIN; PROTEIN ZO1; TUBULIN; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BLOOD CEREBROSPINAL FLUID BARRIER; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; EPENDYMA CELL; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANYCYTE; TIGHT JUNCTION;

AREA POSTREMA; EPENDYMOCYTES; ORGANUM VASCULOSUM LAMINAE TERMINALIS; SUBCOMMISSURAL ORGAN; SUBFORNICAL ORGAN; TIGHT JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; AREA POSTREMA; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; EPENDYMOGLIAL CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PERMEABILITY; SUBCOMMISSURAL ORGAN; SUBFORNICAL ORGAN; TIGHT JUNCTION PROTEINS;

EID: 84881550022     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23355     Document Type: Article

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