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: 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Functional characterization of the dural sinuses as a neuroimmune interface

J Rustenhoven, A Drieu, T Mamuladze, KA de Lima… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Despite the established dogma of central nervous system (CNS) immune privilege,
neuroimmune interactions play an active role in diverse neurological disorders. However …

Physiological blood–brain transport is impaired with age by a shift in transcytosis

AC Yang, MY Stevens, MB Chen, DP Lee, D Stähli… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The vascular interface of the brain, known as the blood–brain barrier (BBB), is understood to
maintain brain function in part via its low transcellular permeability,–. Yet, recent studies …

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 …

Cerebrospinal fluid can exit into the skull bone marrow and instruct cranial hematopoiesis in mice with bacterial meningitis

FE Pulous, JC Cruz-Hernández, C Yang, Ζ Kaya… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Interactions between the immune and central nervous systems strongly influence brain
health. Although the blood–brain barrier restricts this crosstalk, we now know that meningeal …

Aquaporin-4-dependent glymphatic solute transport in the rodent brain

H Mestre, LM Hablitz, ALR Xavier, W Feng, W Zou… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
The glymphatic system is a brain-wide clearance pathway; its impairment contributes to the
accumulation of amyloid-β. Influx of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) depends upon the expression …

Cerebrospinal fluid influx drives acute ischemic tissue swelling

H Mestre, T Du, AM Sweeney, G Liu, AJ Samson… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) covers and protects the brain from mechanical
injury. CSF also flows along an interconnected network of perivascular spaces surrounding …

Multisensory gamma stimulation promotes glymphatic clearance of amyloid

MH Murdock, CY Yang, N Sun, PC Pao… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The glymphatic movement of fluid through the brain removes metabolic waste,,–.
Noninvasive 40 Hz stimulation promotes 40 Hz neural activity in multiple brain regions and …

Delivery of gene therapy through a cerebrospinal fluid conduit to rescue hearing in adult mice

BK Mathiesen, LM Miyakoshi, CR Cederroth… - Science translational …, 2023 - science.org
Inner ear gene therapy has recently effectively restored hearing in neonatal mice, but it is
complicated in adulthood by the structural inaccessibility of the cochlea, which is embedded …