Magnetic resonance imaging provides evidence of glymphatic drainage from human brain to cervical lymph nodes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Eide, Per Kristian ^a,b   Vatnehol, Svein Are Sirirud ^b,c   Emblem, Kyrre Eeg ^c   Ringstad, Geir ^a,b  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOBUTROL; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND;

ADULT; AGED; ARACHNOID CYST; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; INTRASPINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; LYMPHOGRAPHY; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARENCHYMA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THALAMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARACHNOID CYSTS; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; GLYMPHATIC SYSTEM; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; LYMPHOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARENCHYMAL TISSUE; PONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THALAMUS;

EID: 85046834147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-25666-4     Document Type: Article

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