Glymphatic system impairment in Alzheimer's disease and idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus

BC Reeves, JK Karimy, AJ Kundishora, H Mestre… - Trends in molecular …, 2020 - cell.com
Approximately 10% of dementia patients have idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus
(iNPH), an expansion of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-filled brain ventricles. iNPH and …

Anatomy and physiology of the cerebrospinal fluid

D Fleischman, J Berdahl - Ocular Fluid Dynamics: Anatomy, Physiology …, 2019 - Springer
The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is the primary circulating fluid of the central nervous system. It
serves numerous important physiologic and maintenance functions, and its production and …

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

G Ringstad, LM Valnes, AM Dale, AH Pripp… - JCI …, 2018 - pmc.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 …

Guidelines for management of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus

E Mori, M Ishikawa, T Kato, H Kazui… - Neurologia medico …, 2012 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Among the various disorders manifesting dementia, gait disturbance, and urinary
incontinence in the elderly population, idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is …

Monoaminergic neuropathology in Alzheimer's disease

G Šimić, MB Leko, S Wray, CR Harrington… - Progress in …, 2017 - Elsevier
None of the proposed mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) fully explains the distribution
patterns of the neuropathological changes at the cellular and regional levels, and their …

Delayed clearance of cerebrospinal fluid tracer from entorhinal cortex in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: a glymphatic magnetic resonance imaging study

PK Eide, G Ringstad - Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The glymphatic system plays a key role for clearance of waste solutes from the rodent brain.
We recently found evidence of glymphatic circulation in the human brain when using …

Current concepts in intracranial interstitial fluid transport and the glymphatic system: part II—imaging techniques and clinical applications

JM Klostranec, D Vucevic, KD Bhatia, HGJ Kortman… - Radiology, 2021 - pubs.rsna.org
The glymphatic system is a recently discovered network unique to the central nervous
system that allows for dynamic exchange of interstitial fluid (ISF) and cerebrospinal fluid …

Altered proteins in the aging brain

A Elobeid, S Libard, M Leino… - … of Neuropathology & …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We assessed the prevalence of common altered brain proteins in 296 cognitively
unimpaired subjects ranging from age 50 to 102 years. The incidence and the stage of …

Alzheimer's disease, normal‐pressure hydrocephalus, and senescent changes in CSF circulatory physiology: a hypothesis

GD Silverberg, M Mayo, T Saul, E Rubenstein… - The Lancet …, 2003 - thelancet.com
There is evidence that production and turnover of CSF help to clear toxic molecules such as
amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) from the interstitial‐fluid space of the brain to the bloodstream. Two …

Deconstructing normal pressure hydrocephalus: ventriculomegaly as early sign of neurodegeneration

AJ Espay, GA Da Prat, AK Dwivedi… - Annals of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) remains both oversuspected on clinical
grounds and underconfirmed when based on immediate and sustained response to …