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They were, but ... if you don't know what to look for you probably don't find it! Apparently it's not something you can simply dissect and point at it easily.
by pas 2y ago
They were, but ... if you don't know what to look for you probably don't find it!
Apparently it's not something you can simply dissect and point at it easily. (Otherwise people would have found it. Though it still happens from time to time that folks find new ligaments here or there in the complicated joints. But AFAIU the brain is much harder to preserve and prepare.)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10546208/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10546208/ -- here the study uses immunohistochemistry
- MrMcCall 2y agoThanks, that's interesting. This shows the shallowness of my understanding: > It has been known for centuries that the dura mater may harbor lymphatic vessels but the role of meningeal lymphatic vessels (MLVs) regained renewed interest since 2015, when functional MLVs were first reported. Life is incredibly complex, ours most of all. But finding new ligaments is really crazy.