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choroid plexus

noun

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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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