A balanced view of choroid plexus structure and function: Focus on adult humans

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 267, Issue , 2015, Pages 78-86

  Spector, Reynold ^a   Keep, Richard F ^b   Robert Snodgrass, S ^c   Smith, Quentin R ^d   Johanson, Conrad E ^e  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Molecular Toxicology and Environmental Health Sciences Program   (United States)

^e Brown University Program in Neurosurgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetazolamide inhibition; Blood CSF barrier; Cerebrospinal fluid; Cerebroventricular micronutrients; Choroid plexectomy; CSF circulation; CSF pharmacokinetics; Intracranial pressure; Reabsorptive transport; Water movement

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CEFALOTIN; INULIN; MANNITOL; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; BLOOD CEREBROSPINAL FLUID BARRIER; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN METABOLISM; CHOROID PLEXUS; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG TRANSPORT; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; ION TRANSPORT; MENINGITIS; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROSECRETION; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WATER TRANSPORT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHOROID PLEXUS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE;

EID: 84924777905     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2015.02.032     Document Type: Review

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