Tingjun Dai, Jianwei Lou, Deyuan Kong, Jinyu Li, Qingguo Ren, Yujing Chen, Sujuan Sun, Yan Yun, Xiaohan Sun, Yiru Yang, Kai Shao, Wei Li, Yuying Zhao, Xiangshui Meng, Chuanzhu Yan, Pengfei Lin, Shuangwu Liu
BACKGROUND: Using in vivo neuroimaging techniques, growing evidence has demonstrated that the choroid plexus (CP) volume is enlarged in patients with several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. However, although animal and postmortem findings suggest that CP abnormalities are likely important pathological mechanisms underlying amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the third most common neurodegenerative disease, no available study has been conducted to thoroughly assess CP abnormalities and their clinical relevance in vivo in ALS patients to date...
April 17, 2024: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS