Term Information

Accession
GO:0090660
Name
cerebrospinal fluid circulation
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
CSF circulation, CSF flow, cerebrospinal fluid flow
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The neurological system process driven by motile cilia on ependymal cells of the brain by which cerebrospinal fluid circulates from the sites of secretion to the sites of absorption. In ventricular cavities, the flow is unidirectional and rostrocaudal, in subarachnoid spaces, the flow is multi-directional. Source: GOC:mgi_curators, PMID:22100360, PMID:24229449
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0090660 at QuickGO
Subset
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Parents of cerebrospinal fluid circulation (GO:0090660)
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cerebrospinal fluid circulation [is_a relation] is_a  nervous system process (GO:0050877)
cerebrospinal fluid circulation [is_a relation] is_a  epithelial cilium movement involved in extracellular fluid movement (GO:0003351)

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