Brain ventricular astrogliosis and neuroinflammation precede scoliosis onset in the zebrafish rpgrip1l ciliary mutant and anti-inflammatory treatment drastically reduces scoliosis while correcting urotensin related peptide level is ineffective.
Prominin 1 and Tweety Homology 1, two proteins that regulate membrane shape in neural and neuroepithelial cells, have shared evolutionary history and both cause cells to secrete extracellular vesicles.