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The functional state of the choroid plexus epithelium in the brains of humans dying of tuberculous meningitis

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By studying the absorption of Turnbull blue in the corpses of 22 patients dead of tuberculous meningitis and 8 individuals brought shortly after sudden violent deaths and serving as controls, the author has shown that tuberculous meningitis destroys the cells of the epithelial cover of the choroid plexus quite unevenly: some cells necrotize and die while others are still quite viable. The metabolic variation of individual cells has an important influence in determining their susceptibility at the time of being subjected to toxic influences.

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  1. Department of Normal Anatomy of the North-Ossetia Medical Institute the City of Ordzhonikidze, Ordzhonikidze, USSR

    G. G. Avtandilov

  2. Pathological Anatomic Division of the Republic of Kabardin-Balkarian United General Hospital Nalchik, Republic of Kabardin-Balkarian United

    G. G. Avtandilov

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Avtandilov, G.G. The functional state of the choroid plexus epithelium in the brains of humans dying of tuberculous meningitis. Bull Exp Biol Med 43, 372–375 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00781820

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