14 July 2024
Protective Wrapping
A study in zebrafish reveals that the membranes that support and protect the central nervous system (the meninges), and the meningeal vessels are nurtured and supported by a previously unidentified specialised population of lymphatic cells distinguished by expression of the molecule ependymin
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- Still from video from work by Xiang He and Daiqin Xiong, and colleagues
- Institute of Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing, China
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Nature Communications, July 2024
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