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  2. Cerebrospinal fluid - Wikipedia

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    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a clear, colorless transcellular body fluid found within the meningeal tissue that surrounds the vertebrate brain and spinal cord, and in the ventricles of the brain. CSF is mostly produced by specialized ependymal cells in the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and absorbed in the arachnoid granulations .

  3. Ventricular system - Wikipedia

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    The ventricles are filled with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) which bathes and cushions the brain and spinal cord within their bony confines. CSF is produced by modified ependymal cells of the choroid plexus found in all components of the ventricular system except for the cerebral aqueduct and the posterior and anterior horns of the lateral ventricles.

  4. Choroid plexus - Wikipedia

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    Regions of the choroid plexus produce and secrete most of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of the central nervous system. [2] [3] The choroid plexus consists of modified ependymal cells surrounding a core of capillaries and loose connective tissue. [3] Multiple cilia on the ependymal cells move to circulate the cerebrospinal fluid. [4]

  5. Ependyma - Wikipedia

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    Their apical surfaces are also covered with microvilli, which absorb CSF. Within the ventricles of the brain, a population of modified ependymal cells and capillaries together known as the tela choroidea form a structure called the choroid plexus, which produces the CSF. [5] Modified tight junctions between epithelial cells control fluid ...

  6. Tela choroidea - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The choroid plexus produces most of the cerebrospinal fluid of the central nervous system that circulates through the ventricles of the brain, the central canal of the spinal cord, and the subarachnoid space. [4] [2] The tela choroidea in the ventricles forms from different parts of the roof plate in the development of the embryo. [2] [1]

  7. Interventricular foramina (neuroanatomy) - Wikipedia

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    This allows cerebrospinal fluid produced in the lateral ventricles to reach the third ventricle and then the rest of the brain's ventricular system. [1] The walls of the interventricular foramina contain choroid plexus, a specialized structure that produces cerebrospinal fluid. The choroid plexus of the third ventricles continues through the ...

  8. Fourth ventricle - Wikipedia

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    Fourth ventricle location shown in red (E), pons (B); the floor of the ventricle is to the right, the roof to the left. The fourth ventricle has a roof at its upper (posterior) surface and a floor at its lower (anterior) surface, and side walls formed by the cerebellar peduncles (nerve bundles joining the structure on the posterior side of the ventricle to the structures on the anterior side).

  9. Cerebrospinal fluid leak - Wikipedia

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    Cerebrospinal fluid is produced by the choroid plexus in the ventricles of the brain and contained by the dura and arachnoid layers of the meninges. [23] [42] [64] The brain floats in CSF, which also transports nutrients to the brain and spinal cord. As holes form in the spinal dura mater, CSF leaks out into the surrounding space.