The glymphatic system: Current understanding and modeling

T Bohr, PG Hjorth, SC Holst, S Hrabětová, V Kiviniemi… - IScience, 2022 - cell.com
We review theoretical and numerical models of the glymphatic system, which circulates
cerebrospinal fluid and interstitial fluid around the brain, facilitating solute transport. Models …

Waste clearance in the brain

J Kaur, LM Fahmy, E Davoodi-Bojd, L Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Waste clearance (WC) is an essential process for brain homeostasis, which is required for
the proper and healthy functioning of all cerebrovascular and parenchymal brain cells. This …

Impaired glymphatic transport in spontaneously hypertensive rats

KN Mortensen, S Sanggaard, H Mestre… - Journal of …, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
The glymphatic system is a brainwide CSF transport system that uses the perivascular space
for fast inflow of CSF. Arterial pulsations are a major driver of glymphatic CSF inflow, and …

Optimal mass transport with lagrangian workflow reveals advective and diffusion driven solute transport in the glymphatic system

S Koundal, R Elkin, S Nadeem, Y Xue… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The glymphatic system (GS) hypothesis states that advective driven cerebrospinal fluid
(CSF) influx from the perivascular spaces into the interstitial fluid space rapidly transport …

A real-time in vivo clearance assay for quantification of glymphatic efflux

V Pla, P Bork, A Harnpramukkul, G Olveda… - Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
Glymphatic fluid transport eliminates metabolic waste from the brain including amyloid-β, yet
the methodology for studying efflux remains rudimentary. Here, we develop a method to …

Noninvasive characterization of human glymphatics and meningeal lymphatics in an in vivo model of blood–brain barrier leakage

CH Wu, JF Lirng, YH Ling, YF Wang, HM Wu… - Annals of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To evaluate human glymphatics and meningeal lymphatics noninvasively.
Methods This prospective study implemented 3‐dimensional (3D) isotropic contrast …

Glymphatic cerebrospinal fluid and solute transport quantified by MRI and PET imaging

H Benveniste, H Lee, B Ozturk, X Chen, S Koundal… - Neuroscience, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the past decade there has been an enormous progress in our understanding of fluid
and solute transport in the central nervous system (CNS). This is due to a number of factors …

Neurons, glia, extracellular matrix and neurovascular unit: a systems biology approach to the complexity of synaptic plasticity in health and disease

C De Luca, AM Colangelo, A Virtuoso… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The synaptic cleft has been vastly investigated in the last decades, leading to a novel and
fascinating model of the functional and structural modifications linked to synaptic …

[HTML][HTML] Neuroimaging at 7 Tesla: a pictorial narrative review

T Okada, K Fujimoto, Y Fushimi, T Akasaka… - … imaging in medicine …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Neuroimaging using the 7-Tesla (7T) human magnetic resonance (MR) system is
rapidly gaining popularity after being approved for clinical use in the European Union and …

Cerebral microcirculation, perivascular unit, and glymphatic system: role of aquaporin-4 as the gatekeeper for water homeostasis

J Szczygielski, M Kopańska, A Wysocka… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In the past, water homeostasis of the brain was understood as a certain quantitative
equilibrium of water content between intravascular, interstitial, and intracellular spaces …