Editing Choroid plexus (section)

{{Short description|Structure in the ventricles of the brain}}
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| Name            = Choroid plexus
| Latin           = plexus choroideus
| Image           = Gray708.png     
| Caption         = Choroid plexus shown in the fourth ventricle
| Image2          = Gray723.png
| Caption2        = [[Coronal plane|Coronal section]] of [[lateral ventricle|lateral]] and [[third ventricle]]s.
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| Components      =
| Artery          =
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The '''choroid plexus''', or '''plica choroidea''',  is a [[plexus]] of [[cell (biology)|cells]] that arises from the [[tela choroidea]] in each of the [[ventricular system|ventricles of the brain]].<ref name="Langmans">{{cite book|last1=Sadler|first1=T.|title=Langman's medical embryology|date=2010|publisher=Lippincott William & Wilkins|location=Philadelphia|isbn=978-0-7817-9069-7|page=305|edition=11th}}</ref> Regions of the choroid plexus produce and secrete most of the [[cerebrospinal fluid]] (CSF) of the [[central nervous system]].<ref name="Damkier">{{cite journal |last1=Damkier |first1=HH |last2=Brown |first2=PD |last3=Praetorius |first3=J |title=Cerebrospinal fluid secretion by the choroid plexus. |journal=Physiological Reviews |date=October 2013 |volume=93 |issue=4 |pages=1847–92 |doi=10.1152/physrev.00004.2013 |pmid=24137023|s2cid=11473603 |url=http://physrev.physiology.org/content/93/4/1847.full.pdf }}</ref><ref name="Lun">{{cite journal |last1=Lun |first1=MP |last2=Monuki |first2=ES |last3=Lehtinen |first3=MK |title=Development and functions of the choroid plexus-cerebrospinal fluid system. |journal=Nature Reviews. Neuroscience |date=August 2015 |volume=16 |issue=8 |pages=445–57 |doi=10.1038/nrn3921 |pmid=26174708|pmc=4629451 }}</ref> The choroid plexus consists of modified [[ependymal cells]] surrounding a core of [[capillary|capillaries]] and [[Stroma (tissue)#Types|loose connective tissue]].<ref name="Lun"/> Multiple [[cilia]] on the ependymal cells move to circulate the cerebrospinal fluid.<ref name="Takeda1">{{cite journal |last1=Takeda |first1=S |last2=Narita |first2=K |title=Structure and function of vertebrate cilia, towards a new taxonomy. |journal=Differentiation; Research in Biological Diversity |date=February 2012 |volume=83 |issue=2 |pages=S4-11 |doi=10.1016/j.diff.2011.11.002 |pmid=22118931}}</ref>