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 …

Perivascular spaces in the brain: anatomy, physiology and pathology

JM Wardlaw, H Benveniste, M Nedergaard… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Perivascular spaces include a variety of passageways around arterioles, capillaries and
venules in the brain, along which a range of substances can move. Although perivascular …

Impaired glymphatic function and clearance of tau in an Alzheimer's disease model

IF Harrison, O Ismail, A Machhada, N Colgan, Y Ohene… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The glymphatic system, that is aquaporin 4 (AQP4) facilitated exchange of CSF with
interstitial fluid (ISF), may provide a clearance pathway for protein species such as amyloid …

Flow of cerebrospinal fluid is driven by arterial pulsations and is reduced in hypertension

H Mestre, J Tithof, T Du, W Song, W Peng… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Flow of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) through perivascular spaces (PVSs) in the brain is
important for clearance of metabolic waste. Arterial pulsations are thought to drive flow, but …

The neurovascular unit coming of age: a journey through neurovascular coupling in health and disease

C Iadecola - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
The concept of the neurovascular unit (NVU), formalized at the 2001 Stroke Progress
Review Group meeting of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke …

The glymphatic system and waste clearance with brain aging: a review

H Benveniste, X Liu, S Koundal, S Sanggaard, H Lee… - Gerontology, 2019 - karger.com
The glymphatic system is a glial-dependent waste clearance pathway in the brain, in place
of lymphatic vessels, dedicated to drain away soluble waste proteins and metabolic …

Glymphatic MRI in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus

G Ringstad, SAS Vatnehol, PK Eide - Brain, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The glymphatic system has in previous studies been shown as fundamental to clearance of
waste metabolites from the brain interstitial space, and is proposed to be instrumental in …

[HTML][HTML] Brain-wide glymphatic enhancement and clearance in humans assessed with MRI

G Ringstad, LM Valnes, AM Dale, AH Pripp… - JCI insight, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
To what extent does the subarachnoid cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) compartment communicate
directly with the extravascular compartment of human brain tissue? Interconnection between …

Targeting the transferrin receptor for brain drug delivery

KB Johnsen, A Burkhart, LB Thomsen… - Progress in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Obtaining efficient drug delivery to the brain remains the biggest challenge for the
development of therapeutics to treat diseases of the central nervous system. The main …

The glymphatic hypothesis: the theory and the evidence

SB Hladky, MA Barrand - Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, 2022 - Springer
The glymphatic hypothesis proposes a mechanism for extravascular transport into and out of
the brain of hydrophilic solutes unable to cross the blood–brain barrier. It suggests that there …