Significant differences in the central canal diameter and total area percentage between human and animal bones were shown by imaging analysis.
Observation of central canal ependyma of medulla oblongata in rat was carried out under transmissive electron microscope in the present study. Tanycytes were found mainly in the dorsal ependyma.
Syringomyelia refers to the development a spinal cord cyst that results from enlargement of the central canal.
Centrioles lies at the base of the central canal.