Cerebrospinal fluid regulates skull bone marrow niches via direct access through dural channels

JA Mazzitelli, LCD Smyth, KA Cross, T Dykstra… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
It remains unclear how immune cells from skull bone marrow niches are recruited to the
meninges. Here we report that cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) accesses skull bone marrow via …

Skull and vertebral bone marrow are myeloid cell reservoirs for the meninges and CNS parenchyma

A Cugurra, T Mamuladze, J Rustenhoven, T Dykstra… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Myeloid cells are highly heterogeneous, with distinct ontogenies and
immune functions. The diverse role of myeloid populations, including monocytes …

Cerebrospinal fluid can exit into the skull bone marrow and instruct cranial hematopoiesis in mice with bacterial meningitis

FE Pulous, JC Cruz-Hernández, C Yang, Ζ Kaya… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Interactions between the immune and central nervous systems strongly influence brain
health. Although the blood–brain barrier restricts this crosstalk, we now know that meningeal …

Skull bone marrow channels as immune gateways to the central nervous system

JA Mazzitelli, FE Pulous, LCD Smyth, Z Kaya… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Decades of research have characterized diverse immune cells surveilling the CNS. More
recently, the discovery of osseous channels (so-called 'skull channels') connecting the …

Direct vascular channels connect skull bone marrow and the brain surface enabling myeloid cell migration

F Herisson, V Frodermann, G Courties, D Rohde… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Innate immune cells recruited to inflammatory sites have short life spans and originate from
the marrow, which is distributed throughout the long and flat bones. While bone marrow …

Heterogeneity of meningeal B cells reveals a lymphopoietic niche at the CNS borders

S Brioschi, WL Wang, V Peng, M Wang, I Shchukina… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The meninges are a three-layer membrane that covers the central nervous
system (CNS): The outermost layer, the dura mater, is attached onto the skull periosteum; …

Molecular trans-dural efflux to skull bone marrow in humans with CSF disorders

G Ringstad, PK Eide - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Dural sinuses were recently identified as a hub for peripheral immune surveillance of brain-
derived antigens cleared through CSF. However, animal studies have also indicated that …

Single-cell profiling of CNS border compartment leukocytes reveals that B cells and their progenitors reside in non-diseased meninges

D Schafflick, J Wolbert, M Heming, C Thomas… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The CNS is ensheathed by the meninges and cerebrospinal fluid, and recent findings
suggest that these CNS-associated border tissues have complex immunological functions …

Infection drives meningeal engraftment by inflammatory monocytes that impairs CNS immunity

R Rua, JY Lee, AB Silva, IS Swafford, D Maric… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Tissue macrophages have an embryonic origin and can be replenished in some tissues
under steady-state conditions by blood monocytes. However, little is known about the …

[HTML][HTML] Functional characterization of the dural sinuses as a neuroimmune interface

J Rustenhoven, A Drieu, T Mamuladze, KA de Lima… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Despite the established dogma of central nervous system (CNS) immune privilege,
neuroimmune interactions play an active role in diverse neurological disorders. However …