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choroid plexus

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noun

  1. a multilobed vascular membrane, projecting into the cerebral ventricles, that secretes cerebrospinal fluid

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They focused on a small region called the choroid plexus, which is known as a major conduit of immune cells into the brain.

From Science Daily

Laminin is also a component of the meninges2 and is present in a CNS structure called the choroid plexus, which is where immune cells and cells from solid tumours often enter the CNS3.

From Nature

Most clusters include cells from all samples, except for a cluster expressing blood genes and a cluster expressing choroid plexus epithelial cells that are mostly from animal WT5E.

From Nature

Many of them also contain areas which look like choroid plexuses.

From Economist

After a month, the fragments had organized themselves into primitive structures that could be recognized as developing brain regions such as retina, choroid plexus and cerebral cortex, the researchers explained in a telephone briefing.

From Reuters