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    Tanycytes are highly specialized ependymal cells found in the third ventricle of the brain, and on the floor of the fourth ventricle. Each tanycyte has...
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    the fourth ventricle. Ependymin, glycoprotein isolated from the ependyma Tanycyte Neuroglia "ependyma". The Free Dictionary. Histology, a text in atlas,...
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    area postrema have a similar thick ependyma-containing tanycyte covering. Ependyma and tanycytes can participate in the transport of neurochemicals into...
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    cells Medium spiny neurons Principal cells Astrocytes Oligodendrocytes Tanycytes Ependymal cells Pituicytes Anterior lens epithelial cell Lens cells...
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    (including Bergmann glia), oligodendrocytes, ependymal cells (including tanycytes), radial glial cells, microglia, and a subtype of oligodendrocyte progenitor...
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  • and agouti-related peptide. In critical illness, inflammation increases tanycyte D2 in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus, leading to...
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    also contacted by the processes of specialized ependymal cells, called tanycytes. Astrocytes in the arcuate nucleus hold high capacity glucose transporters...
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    kidney cells, cells of the islets of Langerhans, neurons, astrocytes, and tanycytes. Glucose enters the liver via the portal vein and is stored there as a...
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    inside the hypothalamus. Tanycytes have been evolutionarily linked to radial glial cells of the central nervous system. The tanycytes of the median eminence...
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    pituitary are glial cells with characteristics in common to astrocytes. Tanycytes in the median eminence of the hypothalamus are a type of ependymal cell...
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    from above. Third ventricle Biology of depression Suprapineal recess Tanycytes line the bottom of the ventricle Singh, Vishram (2014). Textbook of Anatomy...
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