Go with the Flow: Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow Regulates Neural Stem Cell Proliferation.

Kaneko, Naoko; Sawamoto, Kazunobu · Cell Stem Cell · 2018

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Abstract

Adult neural stem cells in the wall of brain ventricles make direct contact with cerebrospinal fluid. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Petrik et al. (2018) demonstrate that these neural stem cells sense the flow of cerebrospinal fluid through a transmembrane sodium channel, ENaC, which regulates their proliferation.

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