Key facts
- Part of
- Meninges
- Latin
- arachnoidea mater
- Mesh
- D001099
- Ta98
- A14.1.01.201
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
16,076 papers- Molecular anatomy of adult mouse leptomeninges.Neuron · 2023
- Advances and controversies in meningeal biology.Nature neuroscience · 2024
- Identification of direct connections between the dura and the brain.Nature · 2024
- VE-cadherin in arachnoid and pia mater cells serves as a suitable landmark for in vivo imaging of CNS immune surveillance and inflammation.Nature communications · 2023
- The intracranial arachnoid mater : a comprehensive review of its history, anatomy, imaging, and pathology.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2013
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- meninges
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- Commons category
- Arachnoid mater
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- anatomical location
- meninges
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Encyclopedic overview
The arachnoid mater (or simply arachnoid) is one of the three meninges, the protective membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord. It is so named because of its resemblance to a spider web. The arachnoid mater is a derivative of the neural crest mesoectoderm in the embryo.
Structure
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “arachnoid mater” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.