The Choroid Plexus and Cerebrospinal Fluid: Emerging Roles in Development, Disease, and Therapy

Overview

Journal J Neurosci

Specialty Neurology

Date 2013 Nov 8

PMID 24198345

Citations 94

Authors

Maria K Lehtinen

Christopher S Bjornsson

Susan M Dymecki

Richard J Gilbertson

David M Holtzman

Edwin S Monuki

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Abstract

Although universally recognized as the source of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), the choroid plexus (ChP) has been one of the most understudied tissues in neuroscience. The reasons for this are multiple and varied, including historical perceptions about passive and permissive roles for the ChP, experimental issues, and lack of clinical salience. However, recent work on the ChP and instructive signals in the CSF have sparked new hypotheses about how the ChP and CSF provide unexpected means for regulating nervous system structure and function in health and disease, as well as new ChP-based therapeutic approaches using pluripotent stem cell technology. This minisymposium combines new and established investigators to capture some of the newfound excitement surrounding the ChP-CSF system.

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