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Title: | The embryonic blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier function before the formation of the fetal choroid plexus: role in cerebrospinal fluid formation and homeostasis |
Author: | Bueno i Torrens, David, 1965- Parvas, Maryam Garcia Fernández, Jordi |
Keywords: | Encèfal Cervell Fluids Encephalon Brain Fluids |
Issue Date: | Aug-2014 |
Abstract: | Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has attracted interest as an active signaling milieu that regulates brain development, homeostasis, and course disease. CSF is a nutrient-rich fluid, which also contains growth factors and signaling molecules that regulate multiple cell functions in the central nervous system (CNS). CSF constitution is controlled tightly and constituent concentrations are maintained narrow, depending on developmental stage. From fetal stages to adult life, CSF is produced mainly by the choroid plexus. The development and functional activities of the choroid plexus, and other blood-brain barrier systems in adults, have been extensively analyzed. However, the study of CSF production and homeostasis in embryos from the closure of the anterior neuropore, when the brain cavities become physiologically sealed, to the formation of the functional fetal choroid plexus has been largely neglected. This developmental stage is characterized by tightly controlled morphological and cellular events in the anterior part of the CNS, such as rapid brain anlagen growth and initiation of primary neurogenesis in the neural progenitor cells lining the cavities, events which are driven by specific molecules contained within the embryonic CSF. In this article, we review the existing literature on formation and function of the temporary embryonic blood-CSF barrier, from closure of the anterior neuropore to the formation of functional fetal choroid plexuses, with regard to crucial roles that embryonic CSF plays in neural development. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3325/cmj.2014.55.306 |
It is part of: | Croatian Medical Journal, 2014, vol. 55, num. 4, p. 306-316 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/126590 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.3325/cmj.2014.55.306 |
ISSN: | 0353-9504 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística) |
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