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    The ependyma is the thin neuroepithelial (simple columnar ciliated epithelium) lining of the ventricular system of the brain and the central canal of the...
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    chorioidea) is a region of meningeal pia mater that adheres to the underlying ependyma, and gives rise to the choroid plexus in each of the brain’s four ventricles...
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  • Transtillaspis ependyma is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Ecuador (Loja Province) and Peru. The wingspan is 17 mm. Wikimedia...
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    characterized by abnormal clefts lined with grey matter that form the ependyma of the cerebral ventricles to the pia mater. These clefts can occur bilaterally...
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    tumours are small, no more than two centimeters across, coming from the ependyma. The best way to distinguish it from a subependymal giant cell astrocytoma...
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    uterus. Ciliated columnar epithelium forms the neuroepithelium of the ependyma that lines the ventricles of the brain and central canal of the spinal...
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    ventricular system and the central canal of the spinal cord are lined with ependyma, a specialised form of epithelium connected by tight junctions that make...
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    An ependymoma is a tumor that arises from the ependyma, a tissue of the central nervous system. Usually, in pediatric cases the location is intracranial...
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    superficial to this is a thin lamina of neuroglia which constitutes the ependyma of the ventricle and supports a layer of ciliated epithelium. The fossa...
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    but they differentiate into multiciliated ependymal cells. Unlike the ependyma, the choroid plexus epithelial layer has tight junctions between the cells...
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    Astrocytes Pilocytic Astrocytoma (PCA) Glioblastoma Oligodendrocytes Oligodendroglioma Ependyma Ependymoma Neurons Medulloblastoma Meninges Meningioma...
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    through the sheathes of cranial and spinal nerve sheathes, and through the ependyma. The composition and rate of CSF generation are influenced by hormones...
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    trigone is separated from the area postrema by a narrow strip of thickened ependyma – the funiculus separans. Funiculus (neuroanatomy) "Vagal trigone". TheFreeDictionary...
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    The ventricular zone surrounds the tube's central canal, and becomes the ependyma. Dividing cells of the ventricular zone form the intermediate zone which...
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    funiculus separans and area postrema have a similar thick ependyma-containing tanycyte covering. Ependyma and tanycytes can participate in the transport of neurochemicals...
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    while subependymal (also spelled subepydymal) means beneath the ependyma; because the ependyma is the thin epithelial sheet lining the ventricles of the brain...
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    flat, the lateral ventricles have a vaguely triangular cross-section. Ependyma, which are neuroepithelial cells, line the ventricular system including...
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    vaguely rectangular region, filled with cerebrospinal fluid, and lined by ependyma. It is connected at the superior anterior corner to the lateral ventricles...
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    with loss of contact inhibition. Ependymomas are tumors arising from the ependyma, an epithelium-like tissue of the central nervous system. In people with...
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    term refers to increased cerebrospinal fluid that is contained within the ependyma of the central canal. When fluid dissects into the surrounding white matter...
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  • The subependymal zone (SEZ) is a cell layer below the ependyma in the lateral ventricles of the brain. It is an adult version of the embryonic forebrain...
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    located at the perimicrovessel astrocyte foot processes, glia limitans, and ependyma. In addition, this channel is commonly found facilitating water movement...
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    arcuate nucleus of medulla oblongata - as they pass laterally beneath the ependyma of the fourth ventricle to reach the contralateral cerebellum.: 445.e1 ...
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  • within the lamina terminalis. It is covered with pia mater, and lined with ependyma. It overlies the paraventricular nucleus of hypothalamus, and is involved...
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    Glioblastoma Oligodendrocyte Oligodendroglioma Anaplastic oligodendroglioma Ependyma Ependymoma Subependymoma Choroid plexus Choroid plexus tumor Choroid plexus...
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    maintenance of the extracellular space. The cranial pia mater joins with the ependyma, which lines the cerebral ventricles to form choroid plexuses that produce...
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    coexpressing CuZn SOD and GFAP is marked by the arrow. Details Location Ependyma of third ventricle of the brain Identifiers Latin tanycytus NeuroLex ID...
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    non-ciliated - endocrine thyroid follicles Simple cuboidal - nervous ependyma Simple cuboidal - lymphatic lymph vessel Simple squamous endothelium integumentary...
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  • endometrium endoneurium endorphin endothelium enkephalin entorhinal cortex ependyma epicanthus epicardium epicondyle epicranial aponeurosis epidermis epididymis...
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  • funiculus. In the fourth ventricle, the funiculus separans is a strip of ependyma. In the peripheral nervous system, a funiculus is a bundle of axons that...
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