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A Visual Description of the Dissection of the Cerebral Surface Vasculature and Associated Meninges and the Choroid Plexus from Rat Brain
Published on: November 14, 2012
The VI-P of the leptomeninges
Sol Kim1, Julie A Siegenthaler1
1University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Developmental Biology, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Cell Biology Stem Cells and Development Graduate Program, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
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The velum interpositum (VI) is a membranous extension of the leptomeninges under the hippocampus. In this issue of Neuron, Hohsfield et al.1 characterize cellular properties of the VI in mice and its role as a gateway for myeloid cells infiltrating the brain parenchyma.
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