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Neurointervention 2020;15:2-3 https://doi.org/10.5469/neuroint.2020.00045

Where Did the Dura Mater Come from?

Dae Chul Suh, MD, PhD

Neurointervention Clinic, Department of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

The provide a protective cov- dura mater has a profound influence Correspondence to: er to the and the and on cell migration and differentiation in Dae Chul Suh, MD, PhD Neurointervention Clinic, Depart- attach to the bony skull or the vertebral multiple regions of the embryonic and ments of Radiology and Research column, and also contain cerebrospinal infant brain and skull.4 Institute of Radiology, Asan Medical fluid space. The dura mater is a two-lay- Early experiments on quail and chick Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 88 Olympic-ro 43-gil, ered membrane attached to the inner chimeras showed that -de- Songpa-gu, Seoul 05505, Korea 1,2 surface of the skull. The outer (end- rived cells, generated from caudal fore- Tel: +82-2-3010-4366 osteal or periosteal) layer serves as the brain and midbrain levels, contribute to Fax: +82-2-3010-0090 of the internal surface of the the meninges associated with the fore- E-mail: [email protected] 5 skull bone. The inner layer (meningeal or brain. In contrast, mesoderm-derived Received: February 17, 2020 dura mater proper) is fused to the end- cells give rise to the meninges of the Revised: February 24, 2020 osteal layer in most regions, and they midbrain and the hindbrain. Histological Accepted: February 24, 2020 are separated at the dural venous sinus- observations in human fetuses also sug- es. The dural reflections of the 2 menin- gest that the cranial meninges originat- geal layers fold and invaginate into the ed from both the neural crest and the by forming the mesoderm.3,6 The most striking diversity and the tentorium cerebelli. of the neural crest derivatives is found Embryonic development of the me- in its cephalic domain where the neural ninges has been studied for more than crest replaces the role of mesoderm.7 a hundred years.3 The primary meninx The neural crest is a vertebrate-specific (also known as primitive meninx or me- migratory stem cell that generates di- ninx primitiva) give rise to the meninges, verse cell types and structures. Compar- the calvaria, and the dermis of the scalp. ative analysis suggests that neural crest Differentiation of the meninges pro- cells in the vertebrates evolved at least gresses from a basal to apical direction. 3 specific features—multipotency, long- Copyright © 2020 Korean Society of The meninges even provide a stem cell range migration, and cellular communi- Interventional Neuroradiology 8 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of niche. During development and growth cation systems for guidance. the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License of the rostral central , Although the pathogenesis of dural (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and the dura mater regulates events in the arteriovenous fistula (DAVF) still remains reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is underlying brain and overlying skull unclear, sinus thrombosis, head trauma, properly cited. through the release of soluble factors , and hormonal influence are the and cellular activity.4 Interactions of the predisposing factors that initiate this dura mater with the brain and skull are disease. Current classifications of DAVF so dynamic that they exhibit mechan- mainly focus on the presence of lep- pISSN 2093-9043 ical and biochemical reciprocity. The tomeningeal reflux related to cerebral eISSN 2233-6273

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