Experimental production of leptomeningeal heterotopias from dissociated fetal tissue.

Subarachnoid heterotopias were produced experimentally in rats by intracisternal injection of dissociated fetal brain tissue. Heterotopias contained neurons and glial tissue and also mesodermal tissue including striated skeletal muscle. The data show that particles of disintegrated germinal tissue can survive, redistribute, settle and mature within the CSF spaces.