Fluid transport in the brain

MK Rasmussen, H Mestre… - Physiological …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
The brain harbors a unique ability to, figuratively speaking, shift its gears. During
wakefulness, the brain is geared fully toward processing information and behaving, while …

The glymphatic system: a novel component of fundamental neurobiology

LM Hablitz, M Nedergaard - Journal of Neuroscience, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
Throughout the body, lymphatic fluid movement supports critical functions including
clearance of excess fluid and metabolic waste. The glymphatic system is the analog of the …

Parenchymal border macrophages regulate the flow dynamics of the cerebrospinal fluid

A Drieu, S Du, SE Storck, J Rustenhoven… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Macrophages are important players in the maintenance of tissue homeostasis. Perivascular
and leptomeningeal macrophages reside near the central nervous system (CNS) …

Circadian control of brain glymphatic and lymphatic fluid flow

LM Hablitz, V Plá, M Giannetto, HS Vinitsky… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The glymphatic system is a network of perivascular spaces that promotes movement of
cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) into the brain and clearance of metabolic waste. This fluid …

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 …

A mesothelium divides the subarachnoid space into functional compartments

K Møllgård, FRM Beinlich, P Kusk, LM Miyakoshi… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The central nervous system is lined by meninges, classically known as dura, arachnoid, and
pia mater. We show the existence of a fourth meningeal layer that compartmentalizes the …

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy and Alzheimer disease—one peptide, two pathways

SM Greenberg, BJ Bacskai… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The shared role of amyloid-β (Aβ) deposition in cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) and
Alzheimer disease (AD) is arguably the clearest instance of crosstalk between …

Small vessel disease: mechanisms and clinical implications

JM Wardlaw, C Smith, M Dichgans - The Lancet Neurology, 2019 - thelancet.com
Small vessel disease is a disorder of cerebral microvessels that causes white matter
hyperintensities and several other common abnormalities (eg, recent small subcortical …

[HTML][HTML] The brain's glymphatic system: current controversies

H Mestre, Y Mori, M Nedergaard - Trends in neurosciences, 2020 - cell.com
The glymphatic concept along with the discovery of meningeal lymphatic vessels have, in
recent years, highlighted that fluid is directionally transported within the central nervous …

The glymphatic system: implications for drugs for central nervous system diseases

TJ Lohela, TO Lilius, M Nedergaard - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
In the past decade, evidence for a fluid clearance pathway in the central nervous system
known as the glymphatic system has grown. According to the glymphatic system concept …