Third ventricle wall in the brain of an immature rat. A tanycyte coexpressing CuZn SOD and GFAP is marked by the arrow.
Details
Location
Ependyma of third ventricle of the brain
Identifiers
Latin
tanycytus
NeuroLex ID
sao1149261773
TH
H2.00.06.2.01007
FMA
54560
Anatomical terms of microanatomy
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Tanycytes are special ependymal cells found in the third ventricle of the brain, and on the floor of the fourth ventricle and have processes extending deep into the hypothalamus. It is possible that their function is to transfer chemical signals from the cerebrospinal fluid to the central nervous system.
The term tanycyte comes from the Greek word tanus which means elongated.
Tanycytes are special ependymal cells found in the third ventricle of the brain, and on the floor of the fourth ventricle and have processes extending...
the fourth ventricle. Ependymin, glycoprotein isolated from the ependyma Tanycyte Neuroglia "ependyma". The Free Dictionary. Histology, a text in atlas,...
area postrema have a similar thick ependyma-containing tanycyte covering. Ependyma and tanycytes can participate in the transport of neurochemicals into...
kidney cells, cells of the islets of Langerhans, neurons, astrocytes, and tanycytes. Glucose enters the liver via the portal vein and is stored there as a...
nucleus also contains a population of specialized ependymal cells, called tanycytes. Astrocytes in the arcuate nucleus hold high capacity glucose transporters...
pituitary are glial cells with characteristics in common to astrocytes. Tanycytes in the median eminence of the hypothalamus are a type of ependymal cell...
and agouti-related peptide. In critical illness, inflammation increases tanycyte D2 in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus, leading to...
inside the hypothalamus. Tanycytes have been evolutionarily linked to radial glial cells of the central nervous system. The tanycytes of the median eminence...
Third ventricle Third ventricle Biology of depression Suprapineal recess Tanycytes line the bottom of the ventricle Singh, Vishram (2014). Textbook of Anatomy...