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What are the primary functions of cerebrospinal fluid? |
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Keep brain tissue buoyant, deliver nutrients/hormones/pressure and remove waste, compensate for changes in intracranial blood volume |
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What is the developmental origin of the ventricular spaces within the brain? |
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Expansions of the lumen of the neural tube |
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What are the primary structures adjacent to the lateral ventricles? |
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Caudate nucleus, corpus callosum, septum pellucidum, fornix, and thalamus in the anterior horn of the body |
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What are the divisions of the lateral ventricles? |
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Anterior horn, body, posterior horn, inferior horn, atrium |
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What part of the brain does the anterior horn of the lateral ventricles extend into? |
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What is the location of the body of the lateral ventricles within the brain? |
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Under the corpus callosum and over the thalamus |
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What part of the brain does the posterior horn of the lateral ventricles extend into? |
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What part of the brain does the inferior horn of the lateral ventricles extend into? |
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The junction of the body and the posterior and inferior horns of the lateral ventricles is known as what? |
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What separates the lateral ventricles in the midline over the thalamus? |
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The septum pellucidum separates the lateral ventricles over the midline and attaches to what structures? |
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Corpus callosum and the fornix |
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What forms the floor of the body of the lateral ventricles? |
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What important structures help compose the inferior horn of the lateral ventricles? |
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Hippocampus forms the medial wall, amygdala forms its tip |
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What recesses in the 3rd ventricle are used as landmarks for imaging? |
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Supra optic recess above the optic chiasm, the infundibular recess, the pineal recess, and the suprapineal recesss |
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What forms the anterior (rostral) wall of the third ventricle? |
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Anterior commissure and the lamina terminalis (point of closure of the anterior neuropore) |
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The apex of the fourth ventricle extends into what structure? |
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The two lateral recesses of the fourth ventricle extend out over of what structure? Where do they end? |
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The medulla, ends in the foramina Luscka at the cerebellopontine angle |
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What connects the fourth ventricle and the cisterna magna? |
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Foramen of Magendie in the midline of the fourth ventricle |
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What forms the roof of the fourth ventricle? |
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Superior cerebellar peduncles and the anterior medullary velum |
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The fourth ventricle is continuous with what structure? |
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central canal of the spinal cord |
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What secretes the cerebrospinal fluid that fills the ventricles? |
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What is the direction of cerebrospinal fluid flow? |
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Choroid plexus -> lateral ventricles -> 3rd ventricle -> cerebral aqueduct -> fourth ventricle -> subarachnoid space over the brain and spinal cord |
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What are potential sites of obstruction of cerebrospinal fluid flow? |
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Interventricular foramina and cerebral aqueduct |
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What is the name of the junction between the lateral ventricles and the third ventricle? |
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Interventricular foramen of Monro |
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What provides communication between the 3rd and fourth ventricles? |
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What are the pathways for cerebrospinal fluid out of the internal ventricular system? |
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Foramena of Luschka and foramen of Magendie within the fourth ventricle |
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What are the naturally expanded regions of the subarachnoid space that contain cerebrospinal fluid, arteries, veins, and occasionally cranial roots? |
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Subarachnoid cisterns are usually named according to what? |
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What is the developmental origin of the choroid plexus? |
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Forms as an outgrowth of the tela choroidea in the lateral, 3rd, and fourth ventricles |
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What is formed by the choroid plexus in the atrium of the lateral ventricles? |
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Glomus, may contain calcifications that show up on CT scans along with the pineal |
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What cells regulate the composition of the cerebrospinal fluid via the blood-CSF barrier? |
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What is actively transported into ventricles by choroid epithelium? |
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Sodium and chloride, water follow passively |
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How does cerebrospinal fluid composition compare with blood plasma? |
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higher sodium, chloride, and magnesium, lower potassium, calcium, glucose, protines, and pH |
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