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These seven specialized circumventricular structures of the mammalian brain represent windows with individualized structural characteristics permitting intimate contact between blood and cerebrospinal fluid, neurones and specialized ependyma-glia. These “Seven Windows of the Brain”, like the seven lucky deities of Japan, may each have a specific patron of body -brain function which they serve. 1
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