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SUBMITTER: Antila S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5716035 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antila Salli S Karaman Sinem S Nurmi Harri H Airavaara Mikko M Voutilainen Merja H MH Mathivet Thomas T Chilov Dmitri D Li Zhilin Z Koppinen Tapani T Park Jun-Hee JH Fang Shentong S Aspelund Aleksanteri A Saarma Mart M Eichmann Anne A Thomas Jean-Léon JL Alitalo Kari K
The Journal of experimental medicine 20171115 12
The recent discovery of meningeal lymphatic vessels (LVs) has raised interest in their possible involvement in neuropathological processes, yet little is known about their development or maintenance. We show here that meningeal LVs develop postnatally, appearing first around the foramina in the basal parts of the skull and spinal canal, sprouting along the blood vessels and cranial and spinal nerves to various parts of the meninges surrounding the central nervous system (CNS). VEGF-C, expressed ...[more]