title: [The ependyma of the lateral ventricle in Acanthodactylus pardalis (Reptilia, Lacertidae)].
abstract: Within the lateral ventricles of the brain of Acanthodactylus pardalis, different zones of ependymal cells are recognizable through their fluctuating changes from one into the other. The frontal pole of  the hemisphere shows a rather homogeneous ependyma whose cells are laying together. Cell fibers are not visible. Farther caudally, the ventricular wall is subject to some alterations; there are more long-shaped cell nuclei. The ventricular sulci are areas of different ependymal structures. The sulcus terminalis represents a zone of dense-laying cells, whose nuclei possess in several regions more round or more elongated forms. An apical cytoplasmatic border and cilia are often clearly built out. The sulcus lateralis and the sulcus septo-archipallialis have a dense cell layer. The region below the medial cortex, near the sulcus septo-archipallialis, shows tanycytes with long basal fibers. The ependyma of the dorsal striatum shows dorsally as well as laterally, at the ventricle, areas with loosely arranged cells. The orientation of the cell nuclei to the ventricular surface is variable, especially at the ventricular wall of the septum and the opposite side of the striatum, where cell nuclei are to be found whose axis lays no more vertical but parallel to the ventricular surface.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002467:Cell Nucleus; D002923:Cilia; D003593:Cytoplasm; D004805:Ependyma / Q000166:cytology*; D008116:Lizards / Q000033:anatomy & histology*
vernacular_title: Das Ependym der Seitenventrikel von Acanthodactylus pardalis (Reptilia, Lacertidae)