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A Choroid Plexus Epithelial Cell-based Model of the Human Blood-Cerebrospinal Fluid Barrier to Study Bacterial Infection from the Basolateral Side
Published on: May 6, 2016
Interaction between Trypanosoma brucei and the ependymal cell of the choroid plexus
Abstract:
The fine structure of the normal choroid plexus of rats and mice and of those infected with Trypanosoma brucei was examined by transmission and scanning electron microscopy: extracellular trypomastigotes in the perivascular stroma predominate but the evidence presented suggests that they are derived both from stages in the blood and from others undergoing division within ependymal cells, a process which results in destruction of a large proportion of ependymal cells in the parts of choroid plexus affected. The choroid plexus maintains its integrity by regeneration of an outer layer of ependymal cells.
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