The neurovasculome: key roles in brain health and cognitive impairment: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association

C Iadecola, EE Smith, J Anrather, C Gu, A Mishra… - Stroke, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Preservation of brain health has emerged as a leading public health priority for
the aging world population. Advances in neurovascular biology have revealed an intricate …

The role of inflammasomes in vascular cognitive impairment

L Poh, WL Sim, DG Jo, QN Dinh, GR Drummond… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
There is an increasing prevalence of Vascular Cognitive Impairment (VCI) worldwide, and
several studies have suggested that Chronic Cerebral Hypoperfusion (CCH) plays a critical …

Network-driven anomalous transport is a fundamental component of brain microvascular dysfunction

F Goirand, T Le Borgne, S Lorthois - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Blood microcirculation supplies neurons with oxygen and nutrients, and contributes to
clearing their neurotoxic waste, through a dense capillary network connected to larger tree …

Postnatal development of cerebrovascular structure and the neurogliovascular unit

V Coelho‐Santos, AY Shih - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The unceasing metabolic demands of brain function are supported by an intricate three‐
dimensional network of arterioles, capillaries, and venules, designed to effectively distribute …

Brain capillary networks across species: a few simple organizational requirements are sufficient to reproduce both structure and function

AF Smith, V Doyeux, M Berg, M Peyrounette… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Despite the key role of the capillaries in neurovascular function, a thorough characterization
of cerebral capillary network properties is currently lacking. Here, we define a range of …

The multifaceted role of ischemia/reperfusion in sickle cell anemia

RP Hebbel, JD Belcher… - The Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Sickle cell anemia is a unique disease dominated by hemolytic anemia and vaso-occlusive
events. The latter trigger a version of ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) pathobiology that is singular …

Neurovascular alterations in vascular dementia: emphasis on risk factors

S Lecordier, D Manrique-Castano… - Frontiers in aging …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Vascular dementia (VaD) constitutes the second most prevalent cause of dementia in the
world after Alzheimer's disease (AD). VaD regroups heterogeneous neurological conditions …

Cerebral microinfarcts revisited: Detection, causes, and clinical relevance

J Huang, GJ Biessels, FE de Leeuw… - … Journal of Stroke, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Cerebral microinfarcts (CMIs) are small ischemic lesions invisible to the naked eye at brain
autopsy, while the larger ones (0.5–4 mm in diameter) have been visualized in-vivo on …

Role of age-related alterations of the cerebral venous circulation in the pathogenesis of vascular cognitive impairment

GA Fulop, S Tarantini… - American Journal …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
There has been an increasing appreciation of the role of vascular contributions to cognitive
impairment and dementia (VCID) associated with old age. Strong preclinical and …

Retinal peri-arteriolar versus peri-venular amyloidosis, hippocampal atrophy, and cognitive impairment: exploratory trial

OM Dumitrascu, J Doustar, DT Fuchs… - Acta Neuropathologica …, 2024 - Springer
The relationship between amyloidosis and vasculature in cognitive impairment and
Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis is increasingly acknowledged. We conducted a …