Peering through the Windows of the Brain
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- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- review article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
- Vol. 7 (6) , 663-672
- https://doi.org/10.1038/jcbfm.1987.120
Abstract
These seven specialized circumventricular structures of the mammalian brain represent windows with individualized structural characteristics permitting intimate contact between blood and cerebrospinal fluid, neurones and specialized ependyma-glia. These “Seven Windows of the Brain”, like the seven lucky deities of Japan, may each have a specific patron of body -brain function which they serve.1Keywords
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