"Circumventricular Organs" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Highly vascularized and specialized tissues distributed principally along the midline of the VENTRICULAR SYSTEM from the FOREBRAIN to the HINDBRAIN. They are distinguished by their lack of normal BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER and fenestrated capillaries and contain either neurosecretory neurons or chemoreceptors.
| Descriptor ID |
D066280
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A06.688.178 A08.713.049
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| Concept/Terms |
Circumventricular Organs- Circumventricular Organs
- Circumventricular Organ
- Organ, Circumventricular
- Organs, Circumventricular
Sensory Circumventricular Organs- Sensory Circumventricular Organs
- Circumventricular Organ, Sensory
- Circumventricular Organs, Sensory
- Organ, Sensory Circumventricular
- Organs, Sensory Circumventricular
- Sensory Circumventricular Organ
- Neurohemal Organ
- Neurohemal Organs
- Organ, Neurohemal
- Organs, Neurohemal
Secretory Circumventricular Organs- Secretory Circumventricular Organs
- Circumventricular Organ, Secretory
- Circumventricular Organs, Secretory
- Organ, Secretory Circumventricular
- Organs, Secretory Circumventricular
- Secretory Circumventricular Organ
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Circumventricular Organs" by people in Profiles.
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Falnikar A, Stratton J, Lin R, Andrews CE, Tyburski A, Trovillion VA, Gottschalk C, Ghosh B, Iacovitti L, Elliott MB, Lepore AC. Differential Response in Novel Stem Cell Niches of the Brain after Cervical Spinal Cord Injury and Traumatic Brain Injury. J Neurotrauma. 2018 09 15; 35(18):2195-2207.