2022 Cells 10(9):2235. The Structure of the Spinal Cord Ependymal Region in Adult Humans Is a Distinctive Trait among Mammals.

We describe the uniqueness of the human ependymal region in the spinal cord, comparing it with that of other mammals. We describe here in detail the ependymal region of the naked mole rat and hyh mutant mice, and also show some new data on the process of central canal disassembling in humans, in which we find features of epithelial to mesenchymal transition