Flow of cerebrospinal fluid is driven by arterial pulsations and is reduced in hypertension

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Mestre, Humberto ^a   Tithof, Jeffrey ^b   Du, Ting ^a,c   Song, Wei ^a   Peng, Weiguo ^a,d   Sweeney, Amanda M ^a   Olveda, Genaro ^a   Thomas, John H ^b   Nedergaard, Maiken ^a,d   Kelley, Douglas H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART CYCLE; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERIVASCULAR SPACE; PULSE WAVE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ARTERY; C57BL MOUSE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHEMISTRY; CISTERNA MAGNA; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FLOW KINETICS; HEART RATE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PULSATILE FLOW;

FLUORESCENT DYE; MICROSPHERE;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CISTERNA MAGNA; FLUORESCENT DYES; GLYMPHATIC SYSTEM; HEART RATE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; MICROSPHERES; PARTICLE SIZE; PULSATILE FLOW; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 85056707037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07318-3     Document Type: Article

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