New work offers an unprecedented real-time view of the choroid plexus in a mouse model, providing a glimpse of how disturbances of the mother's immune system during pregnancy disrupt the developing ...

The choroid plexus (ChP), located within the ventricles of the brain, produce the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). It plays a central role in regulating inflammatory cells in the central nervous system (CNS ...

The choroid plexus, which makes up the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier in the central nervous system (CNS), lines the ventricles, produces cerebrospinal fluid, and protects the brain via a physical ...

Once viewed merely as a producer of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) bathing the brain and spinal cord, the choroid plexus is now known to be a key player in brain development and immunity. These fronds ...

Floating in fluid deep in the brain are small, little understood fronds of tissue. Two new studies reveal that these miniature organs are a hotbed of immune system activity. This activity may protect ...

The brain is a hive of ceaseless and diverse functions blending to produce cognitive ability. This includes the ability to learn, to remember, to think and to make decisions based on assessments.

Scientists are still trying to parse out the factors that make inflammation a force for good or ill in Alzheimer’s disease. Now, researchers led by Michal Schwartz at the Weizmann Institute of Science ...

Studies of the aging brain typically consider influences within the brain, as well as those outside the brain, even though the blood-brain barrier keeps the two realms largely separate. But recently a ...

Floating in fluid deep in the brain are small, little understood fronds of tissue. Two new studies reveal that these miniature organs are a hotbed of immune system activity. This activity may protect ...