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Scanning electron microscopy of brain ventricular surfaces: a bibliography
Scanning Electron Microscopy
|January 1, 1980
Summary
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is crucial for studying the brain's ventricular system and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) surfaces. This bibliography highlights SEM's impact on understanding ependyma, circumventricular organs, and cellular elements.
Area of Science:
- Neuroscience
- Cell Biology
- Microscopy
Context:
- The cerebroventricular system and its cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) contacting surfaces are vital for brain function.
- Understanding the morphology of the CSF-brain interface is key to ependymal and circumventricular organ functions.
Purpose:
- To provide a bibliography for identifying and locating references on scanning electron microscopy (SEM) applications in cerebroventricular system research.
- To highlight the utility of SEM in examining cell surfaces within the brain's ventricular system.
Summary:
- SEM offers critical insights into the surface morphology of the brain's ventricular system and CSF-contacting surfaces.
- This technique has significantly advanced the study of circumventricular organs, choroid plexuses, tanycytic ependyma, and supraependymal cells (macrophages, neurons).
- SEM applications are expanding across diverse species and research problems, including developmental, pathological, and experimental studies.
Impact:
- SEM has become indispensable for investigating the structure and function of the cerebroventricular system and related components.
- It has revealed the distribution and morphology of supraependymal cellular elements.
- Despite significant progress, numerous research questions in cerebroventricular structure and function remain amenable to SEM investigation.