Blood-brain barrier dysfunction amplifies the development of neuroinflammation: understanding of cellular events in brain microvascular endothelial cells for …

F Takata, S Nakagawa, J Matsumoto… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Neuroinflammation is involved in the onset or progression of various neurodegenerative
diseases. Initiation of neuroinflammation is triggered by endogenous substances (damage …

Tissue clearing and its applications in neuroscience

HR Ueda, A Ertürk, K Chung, V Gradinaru… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
State-of-the-art tissue-clearing methods provide subcellular-level optical access to intact
tissues from individual organs and even to some entire mammals. When combined with light …

Transcytosis to cross the blood brain barrier, new advancements and challenges

VM Pulgar - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The blood brain barrier (BBB) presents a formidable challenge to the delivery of drugs into
the brain. Several strategies aim to overcome this obstacle and promote efficient and …

Neutrophil adhesion in brain capillaries reduces cortical blood flow and impairs memory function in Alzheimer's disease mouse models

JC Cruz Hernández, O Bracko, CJ Kersbergen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Cerebral blood flow (CBF) reductions in Alzheimer's disease patients and related mouse
models have been recognized for decades, but the underlying mechanisms and resulting …

Mapping the fine-scale organization and plasticity of the brain vasculature

C Kirst, S Skriabine, A Vieites-Prado, T Topilko… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The cerebral vasculature is a dense network of arteries, capillaries, and veins. Quantifying
variations of the vascular organization across individuals, brain regions, or disease models …

Machine learning analysis of whole mouse brain vasculature

MI Todorov, JC Paetzold, O Schoppe, G Tetteh, S Shit… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Tissue clearing methods enable the imaging of biological specimens without sectioning.
However, reliable and scalable analysis of large imaging datasets in three dimensions …

Neuronal regulation of the blood–brain barrier and neurovascular coupling

L Kaplan, BW Chow, C Gu - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
To continuously process neural activity underlying sensation, movement and cognition, the
CNS requires a homeostatic microenvironment that is not only enriched in nutrients to meet …

The search for true numbers of neurons and glial cells in the human brain: A review of 150 years of cell counting

CS Von Bartheld, J Bahney… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
For half a century, the human brain was believed to contain about 100 billion neurons and
one trillion glial cells, with a glia: neuron ratio of 10: 1. A new counting method, the isotropic …

Single-breath-hold photoacoustic computed tomography of the breast

L Lin, P Hu, J Shi, CM Appleton, K Maslov, L Li… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
We have developed a single-breath-hold photoacoustic computed tomography (SBH-PACT)
system to reveal detailed angiographic structures in human breasts. SBH-PACT features a …

Cell densities in the mouse brain: a systematic review

D Keller, C Erö, H Markram - Frontiers in neuroanatomy, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The mouse brain is the most extensively studied brain of all species. We performed an
exhaustive review of the literature to establish our current state of knowledge on cell …