tanycytesa
The term tanycytesa does not correspond to a widely recognized cell type in current neuroscience literature. It is likely a misspelling, variant, or pluralization of tanycyte or tanycytes. This article uses tanycyte as the standard term and summarizes what is known about tanycytes and their roles in the hypothalamus.
Tanycytes are specialized glial cells of the brain that form a single-cell lining along the ventricular wall
Researchers classically describe tanycytes as two broad subtypes based on location: alpha (α) tanycytes lining the rostral
Functions attributed to tanycytes include regulation of the hypothalamic neuroendocrine axis, transport and metabolism of metabolic
Developmentally, tanycytes arise from neural progenitor cells during brain development and are found across many mammals,