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Hladky SB, Barrand MA. Regulation of brain fluid volumes and pressures: basic principles, intracranial hypertension, ventriculomegaly and hydrocephalus. Fluids Barriers CNS 2024; 21:57. [PMID: 39020364 PMCID: PMC11253534 DOI: 10.1186/s12987-024-00532-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2023] [Accepted: 03/21/2024] [Indexed: 07/19/2024] Open
Abstract
The principles of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) production, circulation and outflow and regulation of fluid volumes and pressures in the normal brain are summarised. Abnormalities in these aspects in intracranial hypertension, ventriculomegaly and hydrocephalus are discussed. The brain parenchyma has a cellular framework with interstitial fluid (ISF) in the intervening spaces. Framework stress and interstitial fluid pressure (ISFP) combined provide the total stress which, after allowing for gravity, normally equals intracerebral pressure (ICP) with gradients of total stress too small to measure. Fluid pressure may differ from ICP in the parenchyma and collapsed subarachnoid spaces when the parenchyma presses against the meninges. Fluid pressure gradients determine fluid movements. In adults, restricting CSF outflow from subarachnoid spaces produces intracranial hypertension which, when CSF volumes change very little, is called idiopathic intracranial hypertension (iIH). Raised ICP in iIH is accompanied by increased venous sinus pressure, though which is cause and which effect is unclear. In infants with growing skulls, restriction in outflow leads to increased head and CSF volumes. In adults, ventriculomegaly can arise due to cerebral atrophy or, in hydrocephalus, to obstructions to intracranial CSF flow. In non-communicating hydrocephalus, flow through or out of the ventricles is somehow obstructed, whereas in communicating hydrocephalus, the obstruction is somewhere between the cisterna magna and cranial sites of outflow. When normal outflow routes are obstructed, continued CSF production in the ventricles may be partially balanced by outflow through the parenchyma via an oedematous periventricular layer and perivascular spaces. In adults, secondary hydrocephalus with raised ICP results from obvious obstructions to flow. By contrast, with the more subtly obstructed flow seen in normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), fluid pressure must be reduced elsewhere, e.g. in some subarachnoid spaces. In idiopathic NPH, where ventriculomegaly is accompanied by gait disturbance, dementia and/or urinary incontinence, the functional deficits can sometimes be reversed by shunting or third ventriculostomy. Parenchymal shrinkage is irreversible in late stage hydrocephalus with cellular framework loss but may not occur in early stages, whether by exclusion of fluid or otherwise. Further studies that are needed to explain the development of hydrocephalus are outlined.
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- Stephen B Hladky
- Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1PD, UK.
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Shlobin NA, Staple BL, Sclafani M, Harter DH. The Glymphatic System and Subarachnoid Lymphatic-Like Membrane: Recent Developments in Cerebrospinal Fluid Research. World Neurosurg 2024; 190:147-156. [PMID: 39002777 DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2024.07.062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2024] [Revised: 07/05/2024] [Accepted: 07/06/2024] [Indexed: 07/15/2024]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) circulates throughout the ventricles, cranial and spinal subarachnoid spaces, and central spinal cord canal. CSF protects the central nervous system through mechanical cushioning, regulation of intracranial pressure, regulation of metabolic homeostasis, and provision of nutrients. Recently, investigators have characterized the glial-lymphatic (glymphatic) system, the analog of the lymphatic system in the central nervous system, and described a fourth meningeal layer; the subarachnoid lymphatic-like membrane (SLYM)relevant to the CSF. METHODS A narrative review was conducted. RESULTS In this review, we summarize these advances. We describe the development of the original model, controversies, a revised model, and a new conceptual framework. We characterize the biological functions, influence of sleep-wake cycles, and effect of aging with relevance to the glymphatic system. We highlight the role of the glymphatic system in Alzheimer's disease, idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus, ischemic stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and traumatic brain injury. Next, we characterize the structure and role of the SLYM. Finally, we explore the relevance of the glymphatic system and SLYM to neurosurgery. CONCLUSIONS This manuscript will inform clinicians and scientists regarding preclinical and translational advances in the understanding of the structure, dynamics, and function of the CSF.
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- Nathan A Shlobin
- Department of Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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- College of Medicine, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, NYU Langone, New York, New York, USA
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van Veluw SJ, Benveniste H, Bakker ENTP, Carare RO, Greenberg SM, Iliff JJ, Lorthois S, Van Nostrand WE, Petzold GC, Shih AY, van Osch MJP. Is CAA a perivascular brain clearance disease? A discussion of the evidence to date and outlook for future studies. Cell Mol Life Sci 2024; 81:239. [PMID: 38801464 PMCID: PMC11130115 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-024-05277-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2023] [Revised: 04/20/2024] [Accepted: 05/13/2024] [Indexed: 05/29/2024]
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The brain's network of perivascular channels for clearance of excess fluids and waste plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative diseases including cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). CAA is the main cause of hemorrhagic stroke in the elderly, the most common vascular comorbidity in Alzheimer's disease and also implicated in adverse events related to anti-amyloid immunotherapy. Remarkably, the mechanisms governing perivascular clearance of soluble amyloid β-a key culprit in CAA-from the brain to draining lymphatics and systemic circulation remains poorly understood. This knowledge gap is critically important to bridge for understanding the pathophysiology of CAA and accelerate development of targeted therapeutics. The authors of this review recently converged their diverse expertise in the field of perivascular physiology to specifically address this problem within the framework of a Leducq Foundation Transatlantic Network of Excellence on Brain Clearance. This review discusses the overarching goal of the consortium and explores the evidence supporting or refuting the role of impaired perivascular clearance in the pathophysiology of CAA with a focus on translating observations from rodents to humans. We also discuss the anatomical features of perivascular channels as well as the biophysical characteristics of fluid and solute transport.
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- Susanne J van Veluw
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMC, Amsterdam Neuroscience Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Clinical Neurosciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- VA Puget Sound Health Care System, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Institut de Mécanique Des Fluides de Toulouse, IMFT, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Science, George & Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Disease, Bonn, Germany
- Division of Vascular Neurology, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Seattle Children's Research Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Deng S, Hu Y, Chen S, Xue Y, Yao D, Sun Q, Nedergaard M, Wang W, Ding F. Chronic sleep fragmentation impairs brain interstitial clearance in young wildtype mice. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2024:271678X241230188. [PMID: 38639025 DOI: 10.1177/0271678x241230188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/20/2024]
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Accumulating evidence shows that most chronic neurological diseases have a link with sleep disturbances, and that patients with chronically poor sleep undergo an accelerated cognitive decline. Indeed, a single-night of sleep deprivation may increase metabolic waste levels in cerebrospinal fluid. However, it remains unknown how chronic sleep disturbances in isolation from an underlying neurological disease may affect the glymphatic system. Clearance of brain interstitial waste by the glymphatic system occurs primarily during sleep, driven by multiple oscillators including arterial pulsatility, and vasomotion. Herein, we induced sleep fragmentation in young wildtype mice and assessed the effects on glymphatic activity and cognitive functions. Chronic sleep fragmentation reduced glymphatic function and impaired cognitive functions in healthy mice. A mechanistic analysis showed that the chronic sleep fragmentation suppressed slow vasomotion, without altering cardiac-driven pulsations. Taken together, results of this study document that chronic sleep fragmentation suppresses brain metabolite clearance and impairs cognition, even in the absence of disease.
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- Saiyue Deng
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China
- Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, China
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- Department of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- Division of Glial Disease and Therapeutics, Center for Translational Neuromedicine, Department of Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, 14642, United States
- Division of Glial Disease and Therapeutics, Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark
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- Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China
- Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China
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Abstract
The brain is a complex organ, fundamentally changing across the day to perform basic functions like sleep, thought, and regulating whole-body physiology. This requires a complex symphony of nutrients, hormones, ions, neurotransmitters and more to be properly distributed across the brain to maintain homeostasis throughout 24 hours. These solutes are distributed both by the blood and by cerebrospinal fluid. Cerebrospinal fluid contents are distinct from the general circulation because of regulation at brain barriers including the choroid plexus, glymphatic system, and blood-brain barrier. In this review, we discuss the overlapping circadian (≈24-hour) rhythms in brain fluid biology and at the brain barriers. Our goal is for the reader to gain both a fundamental understanding of brain barriers alongside an understanding of the interactions between these fluids and the circadian timing system. Ultimately, this review will provide new insight into how alterations in these finely tuned clocks may lead to pathology.
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- Velia S Vizcarra
- Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA
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Liu P, Owashi K, Monnier H, Metanbou S, Capel C, Balédent O. Validating the accuracy of real-time phase-contrast MRI and quantifying the effects of free breathing on cerebrospinal fluid dynamics. Fluids Barriers CNS 2024; 21:25. [PMID: 38454518 PMCID: PMC10921772 DOI: 10.1186/s12987-024-00520-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2023] [Accepted: 02/05/2024] [Indexed: 03/09/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Understanding of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) circulation is essential for physiological studies and clinical diagnosis. Real-time phase contrast sequences (RT-PC) can quantify beat-to-beat CSF flow signals. However, the detailed effects of free-breathing on CSF parameters are not fully understood. This study aims to validate RT-PC's accuracy by comparing it with the conventional phase-contrast sequence (CINE-PC) and quantify the effect of free-breathing on CSF parameters at the intracranial and extracranial levels using a time-domain multiparametric analysis method. METHODS Thirty-six healthy participants underwent MRI in a 3T scanner for CSF oscillations quantification at the cervical spine (C2-C3) and Sylvian aqueduct, using CINE-PC and RT-PC. CINE-PC uses 32 velocity maps to represent dynamic CSF flow over an average cardiac cycle, while RT-PC continuously quantifies CSF flow over 45-seconds. Free-breathing signals were recorded from 25 participants. RT-PC signal was segmented into independent cardiac cycle flow curves (Qt) and reconstructed into an averaged Qt. To assess RT-PC's accuracy, parameters such as segmented area, flow amplitude, and stroke volume (SV) of the reconstructed Qt from RT-PC were compared with those derived from the averaged Qt generated by CINE-PC. The breathing signal was used to categorize the Qt into expiratory or inspiratory phases, enabling the reconstruction of two Qt for inspiration and expiration. The breathing effects on various CSF parameters can be quantified by comparing these two reconstructed Qt. RESULTS RT-PC overestimated CSF area (82.7% at aqueduct, 11.5% at C2-C3) compared to CINE-PC. Stroke volumes for CINE-PC were 615 mm³ (aqueduct) and 43 mm³ (spinal), and 581 mm³ (aqueduct) and 46 mm³ (spinal) for RT-PC. During thoracic pressure increase, spinal CSF net flow, flow amplitude, SV, and cardiac period increased by 6.3%, 6.8%, 14%, and 6%, respectively. Breathing effects on net flow showed a significant phase difference compared to the other parameters. Aqueduct-CSF flows were more affected by breathing than spinal-CSF. CONCLUSIONS RT-PC accurately quantifies CSF oscillations in real-time and eliminates the need for cardiac synchronization, enabling the quantification of the cardiac and breathing components of CSF flow. This study quantifies the impact of free-breathing on CSF parameters, offering valuable physiological references for understanding the effects of breathing on CSF dynamics.
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- Pan Liu
- CHIMERE UR 7516, Jules Verne University of Picardy, Amiens, 80000, France.
- Medical Image Processing Department, Amiens Picardy University Medical Center, Amiens, 80000, France.
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- CHIMERE UR 7516, Jules Verne University of Picardy, Amiens, 80000, France
- Medical Image Processing Department, Amiens Picardy University Medical Center, Amiens, 80000, France
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- CHIMERE UR 7516, Jules Verne University of Picardy, Amiens, 80000, France
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- Radiology Department, Amiens Picardy University Medical Center, Amiens, 80000, France
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- CHIMERE UR 7516, Jules Verne University of Picardy, Amiens, 80000, France
- Neurosurgery Department, Amiens Picardy University Medical Center, Amiens, 8000, France
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- CHIMERE UR 7516, Jules Verne University of Picardy, Amiens, 80000, France
- Medical Image Processing Department, Amiens Picardy University Medical Center, Amiens, 80000, France
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Plini ERG, Melnychuk MC, Dockree PM. Meditation Experience is Associated with Increased Structural Integrity of the Pineal Gland and greater total Grey Matter maintenance. MEDRXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES 2024:2024.03.04.24303649. [PMID: 38496551 PMCID: PMC10942509 DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.04.24303649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/19/2024]
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Growing evidence demonstrates that meditation practice supports cognitive functions including attention and interoceptive processing, and is associated with structural changes across cortical networks including prefrontal regions, and the insula. However, the extent of subcortical morphometric changes linked to meditation practice is less appreciated. A noteworthy candidate is the Pineal Gland, a key producer of melatonin, which regulates circadian rhythms that augment sleep-wake patterns, and may also provide neuroprotective benefits to offset cognitive decline. Increased melatonin levels as well as increased fMRI BOLD signal in the Pineal Gland has been observed in mediators vs. controls. However, it is not known if long-term meditators exhibit structural change in the Pineal Gland linked to lifetime duration of practice. In the current study we performed Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) analysis to investigate: 1) whether long-term meditators (LTMs) (n=14) exhibited greater Pineal Gland integrity compared to a control group (n=969), 2) a potential association between the estimated lifetime hours of meditation (ELHOM) and Pineal Gland integrity, and 3) whether LTMs show greater Grey Matter (GM) maintenance (BrainPAD) that is associated with Pineal Gland integrity. The results revealed greater Pineal Gland integrity and lower BrainPAD scores (younger brain age) in LTMs compared to controls. Exploratory analysis revealed a positive association between ELHOM and greater signal intensity in the Pineal Gland but not with GM maintenance as measured by BrainPAD score. However, greater Pineal integrity and lower BrainPAD scores were correlated in LTMs. The potential mechanisms by which meditation influences Pineal Gland function, hormonal metabolism, and GM maintenance are discussed - in particular melatonin's roles in sleep, immune response, inflammation modulation, and stem cell and neural regeneration.
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- Emanuele RG Plini
- Department of Psychology, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Llyod Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Psychology, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Llyod Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ Dublin, Ireland
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Chen Y, He X, Cai J, Li Q. Functional aspects of the brain lymphatic drainage system in aging and neurodegenerative diseases. J Biomed Res 2024; 38:206-221. [PMID: 38430054 PMCID: PMC11144931 DOI: 10.7555/jbr.37.20230264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2023] [Revised: 12/30/2023] [Accepted: 02/29/2024] [Indexed: 03/03/2024] Open
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The phenomenon of an aging population is advancing at a precipitous rate. Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are two of the most common age-associated neurodegenerative diseases, both of which are primarily characterized by the accumulation of toxic proteins and the progressive demise of neuronal structures. Recent discoveries about the brain lymphatic drainage system have precipitated a growing body of investigations substantiating its novel roles, including the clearance of macromolecular waste and the trafficking of immune cells. Notably, aquaporin 4-mediated glymphatic transport, crucial for maintaining neural homeostasis, becomes disrupted during the aging process and is further compromised in the pathogenesis of AD and PD. Functional meningeal lymphatic vessels, which facilitate the drainage of cerebrospinal fluid into the deep cervical lymph nodes, are integral in bridging the central nervous system with peripheral immune responses. Dysfunction in these meningeal lymphatic vessels exacerbates pathological trajectory of the age-related neurodegenerative disease. This review explores modulatory influence of the glymphatic system and meningeal lymphatic vessels on the aging brain and its associated neurodegenerative disorders. It also encapsulates the insights of potential mechanisms and prospects of the targeted non-pharmacological interventions.
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- Yan Chen
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neurodegeneration, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211166, China
- Shandong Institute of Brain Science and Brain-inspired Research, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong 250117, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neurodegeneration, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211166, China
- Center for Global Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211166, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neurodegeneration, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211166, China
- Center for Global Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211166, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neurodegeneration, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211166, China
- Center for Global Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211166, China
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Licastro E, Pignataro G, Iliff JJ, Xiang Y, Lo EH, Hayakawa K, Esposito E. Glymphatic and lymphatic communication with systemic responses during physiological and pathological conditions in the central nervous system. Commun Biol 2024; 7:229. [PMID: 38402351 PMCID: PMC10894274 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-05911-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2023] [Accepted: 02/12/2024] [Indexed: 02/26/2024] Open
Abstract
Crosstalk between central nervous system (CNS) and systemic responses is important in many pathological conditions, including stroke, neurodegeneration, schizophrenia, epilepsy, etc. Accumulating evidence suggest that signals for central-systemic crosstalk may utilize glymphatic and lymphatic pathways. The glymphatic system is functionally connected to the meningeal lymphatic system, and together these pathways may be involved in the distribution of soluble proteins and clearance of metabolites and waste products from the CNS. Lymphatic vessels in the dura and meninges transport cerebrospinal fluid, in part collected from the glymphatic system, to the cervical lymph nodes, where solutes coming from the brain (i.e., VEGFC, oligomeric α-syn, β-amyloid) might activate a systemic inflammatory response. There is also an element of time since the immune system is strongly regulated by circadian rhythms, and both glymphatic and lymphatic dynamics have been shown to change during the day and night. Understanding the mechanisms regulating the brain-cervical lymph node (CLN) signaling and how it might be affected by diurnal or circadian rhythms is fundamental to find specific targets and timing for therapeutic interventions.
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- Ester Licastro
- Neuroprotection Research Laboratories, Departments of Radiology and Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA
- Division of Pharmacology, Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University "Federico II", Naples, Italy
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- Division of Pharmacology, Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University "Federico II", Naples, Italy
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Neuroprotection Research Laboratories, Departments of Radiology and Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA
- Department of Pharmacy, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Neuroprotection Research Laboratories, Departments of Radiology and Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA
- Consortium International pour la Recherche Circadienne sur l'AVC (CIRCA), Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, UK
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- Neuroprotection Research Laboratories, Departments of Radiology and Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA.
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- Neuroprotection Research Laboratories, Departments of Radiology and Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA.
- Consortium International pour la Recherche Circadienne sur l'AVC (CIRCA), Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, UK.
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Agarwal N, Lewis LD, Hirschler L, Rivera LR, Naganawa S, Levendovszky SR, Ringstad G, Klarica M, Wardlaw J, Iadecola C, Hawkes C, Octavia Carare R, Wells J, Bakker EN, Kurtcuoglu V, Bilston L, Nedergaard M, Mori Y, Stoodley M, Alperin N, de Leon M, van Osch MJ. Current Understanding of the Anatomy, Physiology, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Neurofluids: Update From the 2022 "ISMRM Imaging Neurofluids Study group" Workshop in Rome. J Magn Reson Imaging 2024; 59:431-449. [PMID: 37141288 PMCID: PMC10624651 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.28759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2023] [Revised: 04/18/2023] [Accepted: 04/18/2023] [Indexed: 05/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Neurofluids is a term introduced to define all fluids in the brain and spine such as blood, cerebrospinal fluid, and interstitial fluid. Neuroscientists in the past millennium have steadily identified the several different fluid environments in the brain and spine that interact in a synchronized harmonious manner to assure a healthy microenvironment required for optimal neuroglial function. Neuroanatomists and biochemists have provided an incredible wealth of evidence revealing the anatomy of perivascular spaces, meninges and glia and their role in drainage of neuronal waste products. Human studies have been limited due to the restricted availability of noninvasive imaging modalities that can provide a high spatiotemporal depiction of the brain neurofluids. Therefore, animal studies have been key in advancing our knowledge of the temporal and spatial dynamics of fluids, for example, by injecting tracers with different molecular weights. Such studies have sparked interest to identify possible disruptions to neurofluids dynamics in human diseases such as small vessel disease, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, and dementia. However, key differences between rodent and human physiology should be considered when extrapolating these findings to understand the human brain. An increasing armamentarium of noninvasive MRI techniques is being built to identify markers of altered drainage pathways. During the three-day workshop organized by the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine that was held in Rome in September 2022, several of these concepts were discussed by a distinguished international faculty to lay the basis of what is known and where we still lack evidence. We envision that in the next decade, MRI will allow imaging of the physiology of neurofluid dynamics and drainage pathways in the human brain to identify true pathological processes underlying disease and to discover new avenues for early diagnoses and treatments including drug delivery. Evidence level: 1 Technical Efficacy: Stage 3.
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- Nivedita Agarwal
- Neuroradiology Unit, Scientific Institute IRCCS E. Medea, Bosisio Parini, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- C.J. Gorter MRI Center, Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Geriatrics and Internal Medicine, Sorlandet Hospital, Arendal, Norway
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- Department of Pharmacology and Croatian Institute of Brain Research, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences and UK Dementia Research Institute Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Pharmacology and Croatian Institute of Brain Research, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Biomedical and Life Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
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- UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, University College of London, London, UK
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- Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Neuroscience Research Australia and UNSW Medicine, Sydney, Australia
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- Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA
- Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
- Department of Neurosurgery, Macquarie University Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Weil Cornell Medicine, Department of Radiology, Brain Health Imaging Institute, New York City, New York, USA
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- C.J. Gorter MRI Center, Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Burman R, Alperin N. CSF-to-blood toxins clearance is modulated by breathing through cranio-spinal CSF oscillation. J Sleep Res 2024; 33:e14029. [PMID: 37734843 DOI: 10.1111/jsr.14029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2023] [Revised: 07/14/2023] [Accepted: 08/16/2023] [Indexed: 09/23/2023]
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Clearance of brain toxins occurs during sleep, although the mechanism remains unknown. Previous studies implied that the intracranial aqueductal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) oscillations are involved, but no mechanism was suggested. The rationale for focusing on the aqueductal CSF oscillations is unclear. This study focuses on the cranio-spinal CSF oscillation and the factors that modulate this flow. We propose a mechanism where increased cranio-spinal CSF movements enhance CSF-to-blood metabolic waste clearance through the spinal CSF re-absorption sites. A recent study demonstrating that disturbed sleep impairs CSF-to-blood but not brain-to-CSF clearance, supports the fundamentals of our proposed mechanism. Eight healthy subjects underwent phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging to quantify the effect of respiration on the cranio-spinal CSF oscillations. Maximal CSF volume displaced from the cranium to the spinal canal during each respiration and cardiac cycle were derived as measures of cranio-spinal CSF mixing level. Transition from normal to slow and abdominal breathing resulted in a 56% increase in the maximal displaced CSF volume. Maximal change in the arterial-venous blood volume, which is the driving force of the CSF oscillations, was increased by 41% during slow abdominal breathing. Cranio-spinal CSF oscillations are driven by the momentary difference between arterial inflow and venous outflow. Breathing modulates the CSF oscillation through changes in the venous outflow. The amount of toxins being transferred to the spinal canal during each respiratory cycle is significantly increased during slow and deeper abdominal breathing, which explains enhanced CSF-to-blood toxins clearance during slow-wave sleep and poor clearance during disrupted sleep.
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- Ritambhar Burman
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
- Department of Radiology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
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Liu P, Monnier H, Owashi K, Constans JM, Capel C, Balédent O. The Effects of Free Breathing on Cerebral Venous Flow: A Real-Time Phase Contrast MRI Study in Healthy Adults. J Neurosci 2024; 44:e0965232023. [PMID: 37968115 PMCID: PMC10860636 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0965-23.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2023] [Revised: 07/10/2023] [Accepted: 08/31/2023] [Indexed: 11/17/2023] Open
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Quantifying the effects of free breathing on cerebral venous flow is crucial for understanding cerebral circulation mechanisms and clinical applications. Unlike conventional cine phase-contrast MRI sequences (CINE-PC), real-time phase-contrast MRI sequences (RT-PC) can provide a continuous beat-to-beat flow signal that makes it possible to quantify the effect of breathing on cerebral venous flow. In this study, we examined 28 healthy human participants, comprising of 14 males and 14 females. Blood flows in the right/left internal jugular veins in the extracranial plane and the superior sagittal sinus (SSS) and straight sinus in the intercranial plane were quantified using CINE-PC and RT-PC. The first objective of this study was to determine the accuracy of RT-PC in quantifying cerebral venous flow, relative to CINE-PC. The second, and main objective, was to quantify the effect of free breathing on cerebral venous flow, using a time-domain multiparameter analysis method. Our results showed that RT-PC can accurately quantify cerebral venous flow with a 2 × 2 mm2 spatial resolution and 75 ms/image time resolution. The mean flow rate, amplitude, stroke volume, and cardiac period of cerebral veins were significantly higher from the mid-end phase of expiration to the mid-end phase of inspiration. Breathing affected the mean flow rates in the jugular veins more than those in the SSS and straight sinus. Furthermore, the effects of free breathing on the flow rate of the left and right jugular veins were not synchronous. These new findings provide a useful reference for better understanding the mechanisms of cerebral circulation.
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- Pan Liu
- CHIMERE UR 7516, Jules Verne University of Picardy, Amiens 80000, France
- Medical Image Processing Department, Amiens Picardy University Medical Center, Amiens 80000, France
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- CHIMERE UR 7516, Jules Verne University of Picardy, Amiens 80000, France
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- CHIMERE UR 7516, Jules Verne University of Picardy, Amiens 80000, France
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- CHIMERE UR 7516, Jules Verne University of Picardy, Amiens 80000, France
- Radiology Department, Amiens Picardy University Medical Center, Amiens 80000, France
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- CHIMERE UR 7516, Jules Verne University of Picardy, Amiens 80000, France
- Neurosurgery Department, Amiens Picardy University Medical Center, Amiens 80000, France
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- CHIMERE UR 7516, Jules Verne University of Picardy, Amiens 80000, France
- Medical Image Processing Department, Amiens Picardy University Medical Center, Amiens 80000, France
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Piersanti E, Rognes ME, Vinje V. Are brain displacements and pressures within the parenchyma induced by surface pressure differences? A computational modelling study. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0288668. [PMID: 38150460 PMCID: PMC10752538 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2023] [Accepted: 06/30/2023] [Indexed: 12/29/2023] Open
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The intracranial pressure is implicated in many homeostatic processes in the brain and is a fundamental parameter in several diseases such as e.g. idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. The presence of a small but persistent pulsatile intracranial pulsatile transmantle pressure gradient (on the order of a few mmHg/m at peak) has recently been demonstrated in hydrocephalus subjects. A key question is whether pulsatile intracranial pressure and displacements can be induced by a small pressure gradient originating from the brain surface alone. In this study, we model the brain parenchyma as either a linearly elastic or a poroelastic medium, and impose a pulsatile pressure gradient acting between the ventricular and the pial surfaces but no additional external forces. Using this high-resolution physics-based model, we use in vivo pulsatile pressure gradients from subjects with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus to compute parenchyma displacement, volume change, fluid pressure, and fluid flux. The resulting displacement field is pulsatile and in qualitatively and quantitatively good agreement with the literature, both with elastic and poroelastic models. However, the pulsatile forces on the boundaries are not sufficient for pressure pulse propagation through the brain parenchyma. Our results suggest that pressure differences at the brain surface, originating e.g. from pulsating arteries surrounding the brain, are not alone sufficient to drive interstitial fluid flow within the brain parenchyma and that potential pressure gradients found within the parenchyma rather arise from a large portion of the blood vessel network, including smaller blood vessels within the brain parenchyma itself.
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- Eleonora Piersanti
- Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway
- Expert Analytics AS, Oslo, Norway
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- Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway
- Expert Analytics AS, Oslo, Norway
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Helakari H, Järvelä M, Väyrynen T, Tuunanen J, Piispala J, Kallio M, Ebrahimi SM, Poltojainen V, Kananen J, Elabasy A, Huotari N, Raitamaa L, Tuovinen T, Korhonen V, Nedergaard M, Kiviniemi V. Effect of sleep deprivation and NREM sleep stage on physiological brain pulsations. Front Neurosci 2023; 17:1275184. [PMID: 38105924 PMCID: PMC10722275 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1275184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2023] [Accepted: 11/02/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023] Open
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Introduction Sleep increases brain fluid transport and the power of pulsations driving the fluids. We investigated how sleep deprivation or electrophysiologically different stages of non-rapid-eye-movement (NREM) sleep affect the human brain pulsations. Methods Fast functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was performed in healthy subjects (n = 23) with synchronous electroencephalography (EEG), that was used to verify arousal states (awake, N1 and N2 sleep). Cardiorespiratory rates were verified with physiological monitoring. Spectral power analysis assessed the strength, and spectral entropy assessed the stability of the pulsations. Results In N1 sleep, the power of vasomotor (VLF < 0.1 Hz), but not cardiorespiratory pulsations, intensified after sleep deprived vs. non-sleep deprived subjects. The power of all three pulsations increased as a function of arousal state (N2 > N1 > awake) encompassing brain tissue in both sleep stages, but extra-axial CSF spaces only in N2 sleep. Spectral entropy of full band and respiratory pulsations decreased most in N2 sleep stage, while cardiac spectral entropy increased in ventricles. Discussion In summary, the sleep deprivation and sleep depth, both increase the power and harmonize the spectral content of human brain pulsations.
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- Heta Helakari
- Oulu Functional Neuroimaging (OFNI), Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Oulu Functional Neuroimaging (OFNI), Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Oulu Functional Neuroimaging (OFNI), Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Oulu Functional Neuroimaging (OFNI), Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Clinical Neurophysiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
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- Clinical Neurophysiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
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- Oulu Functional Neuroimaging (OFNI), Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Oulu Functional Neuroimaging (OFNI), Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Oulu Functional Neuroimaging (OFNI), Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Clinical Neurophysiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
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- Oulu Functional Neuroimaging (OFNI), Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Oulu Functional Neuroimaging (OFNI), Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Oulu Functional Neuroimaging (OFNI), Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Oulu Functional Neuroimaging (OFNI), Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Oulu Functional Neuroimaging (OFNI), Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Center of Translational Neuromedicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Center of Translational Neuromedicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States
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- Oulu Functional Neuroimaging (OFNI), Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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Ludwig HC, Dreha-Kulaczewski S, Bock HC. Paediatric pineal region cysts: enigma or impaired neurofluid system? Childs Nerv Syst 2023; 39:3457-3466. [PMID: 37261536 PMCID: PMC10684616 DOI: 10.1007/s00381-023-06000-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2023] [Accepted: 05/18/2023] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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PURPOSE Pineal region cysts (PCs) may affect the tectum and aqueduct and cause deep central vein congestion. Beside headaches, PC often causes a broad range of symptoms, leading to prolonged diagnosis and therapy. The aims of this study are to reveal parameters that might explain the ambiguity of the symptoms and to identify factors in association with the respiration-driven neurofluid system. METHODS This retrospective study included 28 paediatric patients (mean age 11.6 years) who received surgical treatment and 18 patients (mean age 11.3 years) who were followed conservatively. Symptoms, time to diagnosis, cyst size, ventricular indices, head circumference and postoperative outcome, were analysed. Four patients were investigated for CSF dynamics with real-time MRI. The mean follow-up time was 1.6 years. RESULTS The most common early onset symptoms were headaches (92%), blurred vision (42.8%), sleep disturbances (39.3%) and vertigo (32.1%). Tectum contact was observed in 82% of patients, and MRI examinations revealed that imaging flow void signals were absent in 32.1% of patients. The maximal cyst diameters were 13.7 × 15.6 mm (mean). Together with a postoperative flow void signal, 4 patients recovered their respiration-driven CSF aqueductal upward flow, which was not detectable preoperatively. After surgery the main symptoms improved. CONCLUSION Despite proximity to the aqueduct with frequently absent flow void signals, hydrocephalus was never detected. Data from real-time MRI depicted a reduced preoperative filling of the ventricular CSF compartments, indicating a diminished fluid preload, which recovered postoperatively.
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- Hans C Ludwig
- Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Str. 40, 37075, Göttingen, Germany.
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Division of Pediatric Neurology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Str. 40, 37075, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Str. 40, 37075, Göttingen, Germany
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Liu X. Decoupling Between Brain Activity and Cerebrospinal Fluid Movement in Neurological Disorders. J Magn Reson Imaging 2023:10.1002/jmri.29148. [PMID: 37991132 PMCID: PMC11109023 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.29148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2023] [Revised: 11/08/2023] [Accepted: 11/09/2023] [Indexed: 11/23/2023] Open
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Recent research has identified a link between the global mean signal of resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) and macro-scale cerebrospinal fluid movement, indicating the potential link between this resting-state dynamic and brain waste clearance. Consistent with this notion, the strength of this coupling has been associated with multiple neurodegenerative disease pathologies, especially the build-up of toxic proteins. This article aimed to review the latest advancements in this research area, emphasizing studies on spontaneous global brain activity that is tightly linked to the global mean resting-state fMRI signal, and aimed to discuss potential mechanisms through which this activity and associated physiological modulations might affect brain waste clearance. The available evidence supports the presence of a highly organized global brain activity that is linked to arousal and memory systems. This global brain dynamic, along with its associated physiological modulations, has the potential to influence brain waste clearance through multiple pathways through multiple pathways. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: 2 TECHNICAL EFFICACY: Stage 3.
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- Xiao Liu
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
- Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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Diorio TC, Nair VV, Patel NM, Hedges LE, Rayz VL, Tong Y. Real-time Quantification of in vivo cerebrospinal fluid velocity using fMRI inflow effect. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.08.14.553250. [PMID: 37961095 PMCID: PMC10634978 DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.14.553250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
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In vivo estimation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) velocity is crucial for understanding the glymphatic system and its potential role in neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Current cardiac or respiratory gated approaches, such as 4D flow MRI, cannot capture CSF movement in real time due to limited temporal resolution and in addition deteriorate in accuracy at low fluid velocities. Other techniques like real-time PC-MRI or time-spatial labeling inversion pulse are not limited by temporal averaging but have limited availability even in research settings. This study aims to quantify the inflow effect of dynamic CSF motion on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for in vivo, real-time measurement of CSF flow velocity. We considered linear and nonlinear models of velocity waveforms and empirically fit them to fMRI data from a controlled flow experiment. To assess the utility of this methodology in human data, CSF flow velocities were computed from fMRI data acquired in eight healthy volunteers. Breath holding regimens were used to amplify CSF flow oscillations. Our experimental flow study revealed that CSF velocity is nonlinearly related to inflow effect-mediated signal increase and well estimated using an extension of a previous nonlinear framework. Using this relationship, we recovered velocity from in vivo fMRI signal, demonstrating the potential of our approach for estimating CSF flow velocity in the human brain. This novel method could serve as an alternative approach to quantifying slow flow velocities in real time, such as CSF flow in the ventricular system, thereby providing valuable insights into the glymphatic system's function and its implications for neurological disorders.
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- Tyler C Diorio
- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
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- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
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- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
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- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
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- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
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Yamakuni R, Seino S, Ishii S, Ishikawa H, Kikori K, Ando T, Kakamu T, Fukushima K, Otani K, Ito H. Lumbar intradural space reduction during the Valsalva maneuver observed using cine MRI and MR myelography: a single-case experimental study. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 2023; 165:2111-2120. [PMID: 37341825 DOI: 10.1007/s00701-023-05678-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2023] [Accepted: 06/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown that the Valsalva maneuver (VM) causes spinal canal object movements. We hypothesized that this occurs because of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow generated from intradural space reduction. Previous studies using myelograms reported lumbar CSF space changes during inspiration. However, no similar studies have been conducted using modern MRI. Therefore, this study analyzed intradural space reduction during the VM using cine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). METHODS The participant was a 39-year-old, healthy, male volunteer. Cine MRI involved fast imaging employing steady-state acquisition cine sequence during three resting and VM sets for 60 s each. The axial plane was at the intervertebral disc and vertebral body levels between Th12 and S1 during cine MRI. This examination was performed on 3 separate days; hence, data from nine resting and VM sets were available. Additionally, two-dimensional myelography was performed during rest and the VM. RESULTS Intradural space reduction was observed during the VM using cine MRI and myelography. The intradural space cross-sectional area during the VM (mean: 129.3 mm2; standard deviation [SD]: 27.4 mm2) was significantly lower than that during the resting period (mean: 169.8; SD: 24.8; Wilcoxon signed-rank test, P < 0.001). The reduction rate of the vertebral body level (mean: 26.7%; SD: 9.4%) was larger than that of the disc level (mean: 21.4%; SD: 9.5%; Wilcoxon rank sum test, P = 0.0014). Furthermore, the reduction was mainly observed on the ventral and bilateral intervertebral foramina sides at the vertebral body and intervertebral disc levels, respectively. CONCLUSION The intradural space was reduced during the VM, possibly because of venous dilatation. This phenomenon may be associated with CSF flow, intradural object movement, and nerve compression, potentially leading to back pain.
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- Ryo Yamakuni
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, 1 Hikariga-Oka, Fukushima City, Fukushima, 960-1295, Japan.
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- Department of Radiology, Fukushima Medical University Hospital, 1 Hikariga-Oka, Fukushima City, Fukushima, 960-1295, Japan
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, 1 Hikariga-Oka, Fukushima City, Fukushima, 960-1295, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Fukushima Medical University Hospital, 1 Hikariga-Oka, Fukushima City, Fukushima, 960-1295, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Fukushima Medical University Hospital, 1 Hikariga-Oka, Fukushima City, Fukushima, 960-1295, Japan
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, 1 Hikariga-Oka, Fukushima City, Fukushima, 960-1295, Japan
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- Department of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, 1 Hikariga-Oka, Fukushima City, Fukushima, 960-1295, Japan
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, 1 Hikariga-Oka, Fukushima City, Fukushima, 960-1295, Japan
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, 1 Hikariga-Oka, Fukushima City, Fukushima, 960-1295, Japan
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, 1 Hikariga-Oka, Fukushima City, Fukushima, 960-1295, Japan
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Peters ME, Lyketsos CG. The glymphatic system's role in traumatic brain injury-related neurodegeneration. Mol Psychiatry 2023; 28:2707-2715. [PMID: 37185960 DOI: 10.1038/s41380-023-02070-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2022] [Revised: 04/03/2023] [Accepted: 04/05/2023] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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In at least some individuals who suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI), there exists a risk of future neurodegenerative illness. This review focuses on the association between the brain-based paravascular drainage pathway known as the "glymphatic system" and TBI-related neurodegeneration. The glymphatic system is composed of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flowing into the brain parenchyma along paravascular spaces surrounding penetrating arterioles where it mixes with interstitial fluid (ISF) before being cleared along paravenous drainage pathways. Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) water channels on astrocytic end-feet appear essential for the functioning of this system. The current literature linking glymphatic system disruption and TBI-related neurodegeneration is largely based on murine models with existing human research focused on the need for biomarkers of glymphatic system function (e.g., neuroimaging modalities). Key findings from the existing literature include evidence of glymphatic system flow disruption following TBI, mechanisms of this decreased flow (i.e., AQP4 depolarization), and evidence of protein accumulation and deposition (e.g., amyloid β, tau). The same studies suggest that glymphatic dysfunction leads to subsequent neurodegeneration, cognitive decline, and/or behavioral change although replication in humans is needed. Identified emerging topics from the literature are as follows: link between TBI, sleep, and glymphatic system dysfunction; influence of glymphatic system disruption on TBI biomarkers; and development of novel treatments for glymphatic system disruption following TBI. Although a burgeoning field, more research is needed to elucidate the role of glymphatic system disruption in TBI-related neurodegeneration.
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- Matthew E Peters
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Ozturk B, Koundal S, Al Bizri E, Chen X, Gursky Z, Dai F, Lim A, Heerdt P, Kipnis J, Tannenbaum A, Lee H, Benveniste H. Continuous positive airway pressure increases CSF flow and glymphatic transport. JCI Insight 2023; 8:e170270. [PMID: 37159262 PMCID: PMC10371231 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.170270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2023] [Accepted: 05/04/2023] [Indexed: 05/10/2023] Open
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Respiration can positively influence cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow in the brain, yet its effects on central nervous system (CNS) fluid homeostasis, including waste clearance function via glymphatic and meningeal lymphatic systems, remain unclear. Here, we investigated the effect of supporting respiratory function via continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) on glymphatic-lymphatic function in spontaneously breathing anesthetized rodents. To do this, we used a systems approach combining engineering, MRI, computational fluid dynamics analysis, and physiological testing. We first designed a nasal CPAP device for use in the rat and demonstrated that it functioned similarly to clinical devices, as evidenced by its ability to open the upper airway, augment end-expiratory lung volume, and improve arterial oxygenation. We further showed that CPAP increased CSF flow speed at the skull base and augmented glymphatic transport regionally. The CPAP-induced augmented CSF flow speed was associated with an increase in intracranial pressure (ICP), including the ICP waveform pulse amplitude. We suggest that the augmented pulse amplitude with CPAP underlies the increase in CSF bulk flow and glymphatic transport. Our results provide insights into the functional crosstalk at the pulmonary-CSF interface and suggest that CPAP might have therapeutic benefit for sustaining glymphatic-lymphatic function.
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- Burhan Ozturk
- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, New York, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Quantitative Data Sciences, Global Product Development Pfizer Inc., Groton, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG) Center, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Departments of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics & Statistics, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Isaieva K, Leclère J, Felblinger J, Gillet R, Dubernard X, Vuissoz PA. Methodology for quantitative evaluation of mandibular condyles motion symmetricity from real-time MRI in the axial plane. Magn Reson Imaging 2023; 102:115-125. [PMID: 37187265 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2023.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2022] [Revised: 05/04/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Diagnosis of temporomandibular disorders is currently based on clinical examination and static MRI. Real-time MRI enables tracking of condylar motion and, thus, evaluation of their motion symmetricity (which could be associated with temporomandibular joint disorders). The purpose of this work is to propose an acquisition protocol, an image processing approach, and a set of parameters enabling objective assessment of motion asymmetry; to check the reliability and find the limitations of the approach, and to verify if the automatically calculated parameters are associated with the motion symmetricity. A rapid radial FLASH sequence was used to acquire a dynamic set of axial images for 10 subjects. One more subject was involved to estimate the dependence of the motion parameters on the slice placement. The images were segmented with a semi-automatic approach based on U-Net convolutional neural network, and the condyles' mass centers were projected on the mid-sagittal axis. Resulting projection curves were used for the extraction of various motion parameters including latency, velocity peak delay, and maximal displacement between the right and the left condyle. These automatically calculated parameters were compared with the physicians' scores. The proposed segmentation approach allowed a reliable center of mass tracking. Latency and velocity peak delay were found to be invariant to the slice position, and maximal displacement difference considerably varied. The automatically calculated parameters demonstrated a significant correlation with the experts' scores. The proposed acquisition and data processing protocol enables the automatizable extraction of quantitative parameters that characterize the symmetricity of condylar motion.
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- Karyna Isaieva
- IADI, University of Lorraine, INSERM U1254, Nancy, France.
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- IADI, University of Lorraine, INSERM U1254, Nancy, France; Oral Medicine Department, University Hospital of Reims, Reims, France
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- IADI, University of Lorraine, INSERM U1254, Nancy, France; CIC-IT 1433, INSERM, CHRU de Nancy, Nancy, France
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- IADI, University of Lorraine, INSERM U1254, Nancy, France; Guilloz Imaging Department, CHRU of Nancy, Nancy, France
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Xu J, Su Y, Fu J, Shen Y, Dong Q, Cheng X. Glymphatic pathway in sporadic cerebral small vessel diseases: From bench to bedside. Ageing Res Rev 2023; 86:101885. [PMID: 36801378 DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2023.101885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2022] [Revised: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 02/14/2023] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
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Cerebral small vessel diseases (CSVD) consist of a group of diseases with high heterogeneity induced by pathologies of intracranial small blood vessels. Endothelium dysfunction, bloodbrain barrier leakage and the inflammatory response are traditionally considered to participate in the pathogenesis of CSVD. However, these features cannot fully explain the complex syndrome and related neuroimaging characteristics. In recent years, the glymphatic pathway has been discovered to play a pivotal role in clearing perivascular fluid and metabolic solutes, which has provided novel insights into neurological disorders. Researchers have also explored the potential role of perivascular clearance dysfunction in CSVD. In this review, we presented a brief overview of CSVD and the glymphatic pathway. In addition, we elucidated CSVD pathogenesis from the perspective of glymphatic failure, including basic animal models and clinical neuroimaging markers. Finally, we proposed forthcoming clinical applications targeting the glymphatic pathway, hoping to provide novel ideas on promising therapies and preventions of CSVD.
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- Jiajie Xu
- Department of Neurology, National Center for Neurological Disorders, National Clinical Research Centre for Aging and Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology, National Center for Neurological Disorders, National Clinical Research Centre for Aging and Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology, National Center for Neurological Disorders, National Clinical Research Centre for Aging and Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Institute on Aging and Brain Disorders, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC and Neurodegenerative Disorder Research Center, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, National Center for Neurological Disorders, National Clinical Research Centre for Aging and Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology, National Center for Neurological Disorders, National Clinical Research Centre for Aging and Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
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Elabasy A, Suhonen M, Rajna Z, Hosni Y, Kananen J, Annunen J, Ansakorpi H, Korhonen V, Seppänen T, Kiviniemi V. Respiratory brain impulse propagation in focal epilepsy. Sci Rep 2023; 13:5222. [PMID: 36997658 PMCID: PMC10063583 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-32271-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2023] [Accepted: 03/24/2023] [Indexed: 04/03/2023] Open
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Respiratory brain pulsations pertaining to intra-axial hydrodynamic solute transport are markedly altered in focal epilepsy. We used optical flow analysis of ultra-fast functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data to investigate the velocity characteristics of respiratory brain impulse propagation in patients with focal epilepsy treated with antiseizure medication (ASM) (medicated patients with focal epilepsy; ME, n = 23), drug-naïve patients with at least one seizure (DN, n = 19) and matched healthy control subjects (HC, n = 75). We detected in the two patient groups (ME and DN) several significant alterations in the respiratory brain pulsation propagation velocity, which showed a bidirectional change dominated by a reduction in speed. Furthermore, the respiratory impulses moved more in reversed or incoherent directions in both patient groups vs. the HC group. The speed reductions and directionality changes occurred in specific phases of the respiratory cycle. In conclusion, irrespective of medication status, both patient groups showed incoherent and slower respiratory brain impulses, which may contribute to epileptic brain pathology by hindering brain hydrodynamics.
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- Ahmed Elabasy
- Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis, University of Oulu, 90014, Oulu, Finland.
- Oulu Functional NeuroImaging, Diagnostic Radiology, Medical Research Center/HTS, Oulu University Hospital, 90029, Oulu, Finland.
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- Medical Imaging, Physics and Technology, University of Oulu, 90029, Oulu, Finland.
- Oulu Functional NeuroImaging, Diagnostic Radiology, Medical Research Center/HTS, Oulu University Hospital, 90029, Oulu, Finland.
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- Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis, University of Oulu, 90014, Oulu, Finland
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- Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis, University of Oulu, 90014, Oulu, Finland
- Oulu Functional NeuroImaging, Diagnostic Radiology, Medical Research Center/HTS, Oulu University Hospital, 90029, Oulu, Finland
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- Medical Imaging, Physics and Technology, University of Oulu, 90029, Oulu, Finland
- Oulu Functional NeuroImaging, Diagnostic Radiology, Medical Research Center/HTS, Oulu University Hospital, 90029, Oulu, Finland
- Clinical Neurophysiology, Oulu University Hospital, 90029 OYS, Oulu, Finland
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- Research Unit of Clinical Neuroscience, Neurology, University of Oulu, 90029, Oulu, Finland
- Neurocenter, Neurology, Oulu University Hospital, Member of ERN EpiCARE, 90029, Oulu, Finland
- MRC, Oulu University Hospital, 90029, Oulu, Finland
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- Research Unit of Clinical Neuroscience, Neurology, University of Oulu, 90029, Oulu, Finland
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- Medical Imaging, Physics and Technology, University of Oulu, 90029, Oulu, Finland
- Oulu Functional NeuroImaging, Diagnostic Radiology, Medical Research Center/HTS, Oulu University Hospital, 90029, Oulu, Finland
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- Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis, University of Oulu, 90014, Oulu, Finland
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- Medical Imaging, Physics and Technology, University of Oulu, 90029, Oulu, Finland.
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Williams SD, Setzer B, Fultz NE, Valdiviezo Z, Tacugue N, Diamandis Z, Lewis LD. Neural activity induced by sensory stimulation can drive large-scale cerebrospinal fluid flow during wakefulness in humans. PLoS Biol 2023; 21:e3002035. [PMID: 36996009 PMCID: PMC10062585 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2022] [Accepted: 02/15/2023] [Indexed: 03/31/2023] Open
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Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow maintains healthy brain homeostasis, facilitating solute transport and the exchange of brain waste products. CSF flow is thus important for brain health, but the mechanisms that control its large-scale movement through the ventricles are not well understood. While it is well established that CSF flow is modulated by respiratory and cardiovascular dynamics, recent work has also demonstrated that neural activity is coupled to large waves of CSF flow in the ventricles during sleep. To test whether the temporal coupling between neural activity and CSF flow is in part due to a causal relationship, we investigated whether CSF flow could be induced by driving neural activity with intense visual stimulation. We manipulated neural activity with a flickering checkerboard visual stimulus and found that we could drive macroscopic CSF flow in the human brain. The timing and amplitude of CSF flow was matched to the visually evoked hemodynamic responses, suggesting neural activity can modulate CSF flow via neurovascular coupling. These results demonstrate that neural activity can contribute to driving CSF flow in the human brain and that the temporal dynamics of neurovascular coupling can explain this effect.
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- Stephanie D. Williams
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Liu G, Ladrón-de-Guevara A, Izhiman Y, Nedergaard M, Du T. Measurements of cerebrospinal fluid production: a review of the limitations and advantages of current methodologies. Fluids Barriers CNS 2022; 19:101. [PMID: 36522656 PMCID: PMC9753305 DOI: 10.1186/s12987-022-00382-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2022] [Accepted: 10/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is an essential and critical component of the central nervous system (CNS). According to the concept of the "third circulation" originally proposed by Cushing, CSF is mainly produced by the choroid plexus and subsequently leaves the cerebral ventricles via the foramen of Magendie and Luschka. CSF then fills the subarachnoid space from whence it disperses to all parts of the CNS, including the forebrain and spinal cord. CSF provides buoyancy to the submerged brain, thus protecting it against mechanical injury. CSF is also transported via the glymphatic pathway to reach deep interstitial brain regions along perivascular channels; this CSF clearance pathway promotes transport of energy metabolites and signaling molecules, and the clearance of metabolic waste. In particular, CSF is now intensively studied as a carrier for the removal of proteins implicated in neurodegeneration, such as amyloid-β and tau. Despite this key function of CSF, there is little information about its production rate, the factors controlling CSF production, and the impact of diseases on CSF flux. Therefore, we consider it to be a matter of paramount importance to quantify better the rate of CSF production, thereby obtaining a better understanding of CSF dynamics. To this end, we now review the existing methods developed to measure CSF production, including invasive, noninvasive, direct, and indirect methods, and MRI-based techniques. Depending on the methodology, estimates of CSF production rates in a given species can extend over a ten-fold range. Throughout this review, we interrogate the technical details of CSF measurement methods and discuss the consequences of minor experimental modifications on estimates of production rate. Our aim is to highlight the gaps in our knowledge and inspire the development of more accurate, reproducible, and less invasive techniques for quantitation of CSF production.
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- Guojun Liu
- Department of Neurosurgery, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110032, China
- School of Pharmacy, China Medical University, Shenyang, 110122, China
- Center for Translational Neuromedicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Center for Translational Neuromedicine, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA
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- Center for Translational Neuromedicine, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA
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- Center for Translational Neuromedicine, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA
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- Center for Translational Neuromedicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Center for Translational Neuromedicine, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA.
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- School of Pharmacy, China Medical University, Shenyang, 110122, China.
- Center for Translational Neuromedicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Center for Translational Neuromedicine, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA.
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Laganà MM, Di Tella S, Ferrari F, Pelizzari L, Cazzoli M, Alperin N, Jin N, Zacà D, Baselli G, Baglio F. Blood and cerebrospinal fluid flow oscillations measured with real-time phase-contrast MRI: breathing mode matters. Fluids Barriers CNS 2022; 19:100. [PMID: 36517859 PMCID: PMC9749305 DOI: 10.1186/s12987-022-00394-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2022] [Accepted: 09/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Cervical blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow rates can be quantified with Phase-contrast (PC) MRI, which is routinely used for clinical studies. Previous MRI studies showed that venous and CSF flow alterations are linked to various pathological conditions. Since it is well known that, besides the heart beating, the thoracic pump influences the blood and CSF dynamics, we studied the effect of different respiration modes on blood and CSF flow rates using a real-time (RT)-PC prototype. METHODS Thirty healthy volunteers were examined with a 3 T scanner. A RT-PC sequence was acquired at the first cervical level to quantify the flow rates of internal carotid arteries, internal jugular veins (IJVs) and CSF. Each RT-PC acquisition was repeated three times, while the subjects were asked to breathe in three different ways for 60 s each: freely (F), with a constant rate (PN) and with deep and constant respiration rate (PD). The average flow rates were computed, they were removed from the respective signals and integrated in the inspiratory and expiratory phases (differential volumes). Finally, the power spectral density was computed for each detrended flow rate. High- and very-high frequency peaks were identified on the spectra while their frequencies were compared to the respiratory and cardiac frequencies estimated using a thoracic belt and a pulse oximeter. The area under the spectra was computed in four 0.5 Hz-wide ranges, centered on the high-frequency peak, on very-high frequency peak and its 2nd and 3rd harmonics, and then they were normalized by the flow rate variance. The effect of breathing patterns on average flow rates, on systolic and diastolic peaks, and on the normalized power was tested. Finally, the differential volumes of inspiration were compared to those of expiration. RESULTS The frequencies of the high- and very-high spectral peaks corresponded to the respiratory and cardiac frequencies. The average flow rate progressively decreased from F to PN to PD breathing, and the cardiac modulations were less predominant especially for the IJVs. The respiratory modulation increased with PD breathing. The average volumes displaced in the inspiratory phases were not significantly different from those of the expiratory one. CONCLUSIONS The spectral analyses demonstrated higher respiratory modulations in PD compared to free breathing, even prevailing the cardiac modulation in the IJVs, showing an increment of the thoracic pump affecting the flow rate shape.
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- Maria Marcella Laganà
- grid.418563.d0000 0001 1090 9021IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Milan, Italy
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- grid.418563.d0000 0001 1090 9021IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Milan, Italy ,grid.8142.f0000 0001 0941 3192Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
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- grid.4643.50000 0004 1937 0327Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- grid.418563.d0000 0001 1090 9021IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Milan, Italy
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- grid.418563.d0000 0001 1090 9021IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Milan, Italy
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- grid.26790.3a0000 0004 1936 8606University of Miami, Miami, USA
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- MR R&D Collaborations, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc, Cleveland, OH USA
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- grid.4643.50000 0004 1937 0327Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- grid.418563.d0000 0001 1090 9021IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Milan, Italy
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Could dexmedetomidine be repurposed as a glymphatic enhancer? Trends Pharmacol Sci 2022; 43:1030-1040. [PMID: 36280451 DOI: 10.1016/j.tips.2022.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2022] [Revised: 09/26/2022] [Accepted: 09/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flows through the central nervous system (CNS) via the glymphatic pathway to clear the interstitium of metabolic waste. In preclinical studies, glymphatic fluid flow rate increases with low central noradrenergic tone and slow-wave activity during natural sleep and general anesthesia. By contrast, sleep deprivation reduces glymphatic clearance and leads to intracerebral accumulation of metabolic waste, suggesting an underlying mechanism linking sleep disturbances with neurodegenerative diseases. The selective α2-adrenergic agonist dexmedetomidine is a sedative drug that induces slow waves in the electroencephalogram, suppresses central noradrenergic tone, and preserves glymphatic outflow. As recently developed dexmedetomidine formulations enable self-administration, we suggest that dexmedetomidine could serve as a sedative-hypnotic drug to enhance clearance of harmful waste from the brain of those vulnerable to neurodegeneration.
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Zhao L, Tannenbaum A, Bakker ENTP, Benveniste H. Physiology of Glymphatic Solute Transport and Waste Clearance from the Brain. Physiology (Bethesda) 2022; 37:0. [PMID: 35881783 PMCID: PMC9550574 DOI: 10.1152/physiol.00015.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2022] [Revised: 07/12/2022] [Accepted: 07/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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This review focuses on the physiology of glymphatic solute transport and waste clearance, using evidence from experimental animal models as well as from human studies. Specific topics addressed include the biophysical characteristics of fluid and solute transport in the central nervous system, glymphatic-lymphatic coupling, as well as the role of cerebrospinal fluid movement for brain waste clearance. We also discuss the current understanding of mechanisms underlying increased waste clearance during sleep.
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- Lucy Zhao
- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Departments of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
- Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, New York
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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Hermes D, Wu H, Kerr AB, Wandell BA. Measuring brain beats: Cardiac-aligned fast functional magnetic resonance imaging signals. Hum Brain Mapp 2022; 44:280-294. [PMID: 36308417 PMCID: PMC9783469 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2022] [Revised: 09/17/2022] [Accepted: 09/26/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pulse and flow throughout the brain, driven by the cardiac cycle. These fluid dynamics, which are essential to healthy brain function, are characterized by several noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods. Recent developments in fast MRI, specifically simultaneous multislice acquisition methods, provide a new opportunity to rapidly and broadly assess cardiac-driven flow, including CSF spaces, surface vessels and parenchymal vessels. We use these techniques to assess blood and CSF flow dynamics in brief (3.5 min) scans on a conventional 3 T MRI scanner in five subjects. Cardiac pulses are measured with a photoplethysmography (PPG) on the index finger, along with functional MRI (fMRI) signals in the brain. We, retrospectively, align the fMRI signals to the heartbeat. Highly reliable cardiac-gated fMRI temporal signals are observed in CSF and blood on the timescale of one heartbeat (test-retest reliability within subjects R2 > 50%). In blood vessels, a local minimum is observed following systole. In CSF spaces, the ventricles and subarachnoid spaces have a local maximum following systole instead. Slower resting-state scans with slice timing, retrospectively, aligned to the cardiac pulse, reveal similar cardiac-gated responses. The cardiac-gated measurements estimate the amplitude and phase of fMRI pulsations in the CSF relative to those in the arteries, an estimate of the local intracranial impedance. Cardiac aligned fMRI signals can provide new insights about fluid dynamics or diagnostics for diseases where these dynamics are important.
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- Dora Hermes
- Department of Physiology and Biomedical EngineeringMayo ClinicRochesterMinnesotaUSA,Department of PsychologyStanford UniversityStanfordCaliforniaUSA
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- Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological ImagingStanford UniversityStanfordCaliforniaUSA
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- Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological ImagingStanford UniversityStanfordCaliforniaUSA,Department of Electrical EngineeringStanford UniversityStanfordCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of PsychologyStanford UniversityStanfordCaliforniaUSA
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A Clinical Study on the Treatment of Recurrent Chiari (Type I) Malformation with Syringomyelia Based on the Dynamics of Cerebrospinal Fluid. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2022; 2022:9770323. [DOI: 10.1155/2022/9770323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2022] [Accepted: 09/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Objective. Combining the dynamics of cerebrospinal fluid, our study investigates the clinical effects of syringomyelia after the combination of fourth ventricle-subarachnoid shunt (FVSS) for recurrent Chiari (type I) malformations after cranial fossa decompression (foramen magnum decompression (FMD)). Methods. From December 2018 to December 2020, 15 patients with recurrent syringomyelia following posterior fossa decompression had FVSS surgery. Before and after the procedure, the clinical and imaging data of these individuals were retrospectively examined. Results. Following FVSS, none of the 15 patients experienced infection, nerve injury, shunt loss, or obstruction. 13 patients improved dramatically after surgery, while 2 patients improved significantly in the early postoperative period, but the primary symptoms returned 2 months later. The Japanese Orthopedic Association (JOA) score was
, which was considerably better than preoperatively (
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0.001). The MRI results revealed that the cavities in 13 patients were reduced by at least 50% compared to the cavities measured preoperatively. The shrinkage rate of syringomyelia was 86.67% (13/15). One patient’s cavities nearly vanished following syringomyelia. The size of the cavity in the patient remain unchanged, and the cavity’s maximal diameter was significantly smaller than the size measured preoperatively (
) PC-MRI results indicated that the peak flow rate of cerebrospinal fluid at the central segment of the midbrain aqueduct and the foramen magnum in patients during systole and diastole were significantly reduced after surgery (
). Conclusion. After posterior fossa decompression, FVSS can effectively restore the smooth circulation of cerebrospinal fluid and alleviate clinical symptoms in patients with recurrent Chiari (type I) malformation and syringomyelia. It is a highly effective way of treatment.
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Increased very low frequency pulsations and decreased cardiorespiratory pulsations suggest altered brain clearance in narcolepsy. COMMUNICATIONS MEDICINE 2022; 2:122. [PMID: 36193214 PMCID: PMC9525269 DOI: 10.1038/s43856-022-00187-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2021] [Accepted: 09/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological disease characterized by daytime sleep attacks, cataplexy, and fragmented sleep. The disease is hypothesized to arise from destruction or dysfunction of hypothalamic hypocretin-producing cells that innervate wake-promoting systems including the ascending arousal network (AAN), which regulates arousal via release of neurotransmitters like noradrenalin. Brain pulsations are thought to drive intracranial cerebrospinal fluid flow linked to brain metabolite transfer that sustains homeostasis. This flow increases in sleep and is suppressed by noradrenalin in the awake state. Here we tested the hypothesis that narcolepsy is associated with altered brain pulsations, and if these pulsations can differentiate narcolepsy type 1 from healthy controls. Methods In this case-control study, 23 patients with narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) were imaged with ultrafast fMRI (MREG) along with 23 age- and sex-matched healthy controls (HC). The physiological brain pulsations were quantified as the frequency-wise signal variance. Clinical relevance of the pulsations was investigated with correlation and receiving operating characteristic analysis. Results We find that variance and fractional variance in the very low frequency (MREGvlf) band are greater in NT1 compared to HC, while cardiac (MREGcard) and respiratory band variances are lower. Interestingly, these pulsations differences are prominent in the AAN region. We further find that fractional variance in MREGvlf shows promise as an effective bi-classification metric (AUC = 81.4%/78.5%), and that disease severity measured with narcolepsy severity score correlates with MREGcard variance (R = −0.48, p = 0.0249). Conclusions We suggest that our novel results reflect impaired CSF dynamics that may be linked to altered glymphatic circulation in narcolepsy type 1. The flow of fluid surrounding and inside the human brain is thought to be caused by the movement of brain vessels, breathing and heart rate. These so called brain pulsations are linked to clearing waste from the brain. This process is increased during sleep and suppressed while we are awake. Narcolepsy is a neurological disease where the brain areas regulating being awake and asleep are affected. The diagnosis requires time-consuming hospital tests and is often delayed which has a prolonged negative impact on the patients. Here, we use brain imaging to investigate whether brain pulsations are altered in patients with narcolepsy, and if they can be utilized to differentiate patients with narcolepsy from healthy individuals. We find that narcolepsy affects all brain pulsations, and these findings show promise as an additional diagnostic tool that could help detect the disease earlier. Järvelä et al. investigate if narcolepsy is associated with altered brain pulsations using ultrafast fMRI. They find differences in the brain pulsations between narcolepsy type 1 patients and healthy controls that may link to altered brain clearance in narcolepsy, have diagnostic potential and correlate with the severity of narcolepsy.
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Gutiérrez-Montes C, Coenen W, Vidorreta M, Sincomb S, Martínez-Bazán C, Sánchez AL, Haughton V. Effect of Normal Breathing on the Movement of CSF in the Spinal Subarachnoid Space. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2022; 43:1369-1374. [PMID: 35981761 PMCID: PMC9451622 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a7603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2022] [Accepted: 06/24/2022] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Forced respirations reportedly have an effect on CSF movement in the spinal canal. We studied respiratory-related CSF motion during normal respiration. MATERIALS AND METHODS Six healthy subjects breathed at their normal rate with a visual guide to ensure an unchanging rhythm. Respiratory-gated phase-contrast MR flow images were acquired at 5 selected axial planes along the spine. At each spinal level, we computed the flow rate voxelwise in the spinal canal, together with the associated stroke volume. From these data, we computed the periodic volume changes of spinal segments. A phantom was used to quantify the effect of respiration-related magnetic susceptibility changes on the velocity data measured. RESULTS At each level, CSF moved cephalad during inhalation and caudad during expiration. While the general pattern of fluid movement was the same in the 6 subjects, the flow rates, stroke volumes, and spine segment volume changes varied among subjects. Peak flow rates ranged from 0.60 to 1.59 mL/s in the cervical region, 0.46 to 3.17 mL/s in the thoracic region, and 0.75 to 3.64 mL/s in the lumbar region. The differences in flow rates along the canal yielded cyclic volume variations of spine segments that were largest in the lumbar spine, ranging from 0.76 to 3.07 mL among subjects. In the phantom study, flow velocities oscillated periodically during the respiratory cycle by up to 0.02 cm/s or 0.5%. CONCLUSIONS Respiratory-gated measurements of the CSF motion in the spinal canal showed cyclic oscillatory movements of spinal fluid correlated to the breathing pattern.
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- C Gutiérrez-Montes
- From the Department of Mechanical and Mining Engineering (C.G.-M.), University of Jaén, Jaén, Andalucía, Spain
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- Grupo de Mecánica de Fluidos, Departamento de Ingeniería Térmica y de Fluidos (W.C.), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (S.S., A.L.S.), University of California San Diego, San Diego, California
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- Department of Structural Mechanics and Hydraulic Engineering (C.M.-B.), University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (S.S., A.L.S.), University of California San Diego, San Diego, California
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- Department of Radiology (V.H.), School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
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We review theoretical and numerical models of the glymphatic system, which circulates cerebrospinal fluid and interstitial fluid around the brain, facilitating solute transport. Models enable hypothesis development and predictions of transport, with clinical applications including drug delivery, stroke, cardiac arrest, and neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease. We sort existing models into broad categories by anatomical function: Perivascular flow, transport in brain parenchyma, interfaces to perivascular spaces, efflux routes, and links to neuronal activity. Needs and opportunities for future work are highlighted wherever possible; new models, expanded models, and novel experiments to inform models could all have tremendous value for advancing the field.
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Hochstetler A, Raskin J, Blazer-Yost BL. Hydrocephalus: historical analysis and considerations for treatment. Eur J Med Res 2022; 27:168. [PMID: 36050779 PMCID: PMC9434947 DOI: 10.1186/s40001-022-00798-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Hydrocephalus is a serious condition that affects patients of all ages, resulting from a multitude of causes. While the etiologies of hydrocephalus are numerous, many of the acute and chronic symptoms of the condition are shared. These symptoms include disorientation and pain (headaches), cognitive and developmental changes, vision and sleep disturbances, and gait abnormalities. This collective group of symptoms combined with the effectiveness of CSF diversion as a surgical intervention for many types of the condition suggest that the various etiologies may share common cellular and molecular dysfunctions. The incidence rate of pediatric hydrocephalus is approximately 0.1–0.6% of live births, making it as common as Down syndrome in infants. Diagnosis and treatment of various forms of adult hydrocephalus remain understudied and underreported. Surgical interventions to treat hydrocephalus, though lifesaving, have a high incidence of failure. Previously tested pharmacotherapies for the treatment of hydrocephalus have resulted in net zero or negative outcomes for patients potentially due to the lack of understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that contribute to the development of hydrocephalus. Very few well-validated drug targets have been proposed for therapy; most of these have been within the last 5 years. Within the last 50 years, there have been only incremental improvements in surgical treatments for hydrocephalus, and there has been little progress made towards prevention or cure. This demonstrates the need to develop nonsurgical interventions for the treatment of hydrocephalus regardless of etiology. The development of new treatment paradigms relies heavily on investment in researching the common molecular mechanisms that contribute to all of the forms of hydrocephalus, and requires the concerted support of patient advocacy organizations, government- and private-funded research, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, the medical device industry, and the vast network of healthcare professionals.
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- Alexandra Hochstetler
- Department of Biology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
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- Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA.,Department of Neurosurgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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Wang Y, van Gelderen P, de Zwart JA, Özbay PS, Mandelkow H, Picchioni D, Duyn JH. Cerebrovascular activity is a major factor in the cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics. Neuroimage 2022; 258:119362. [PMID: 35688316 PMCID: PMC9271599 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2022] [Revised: 06/02/2022] [Accepted: 06/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) provides physical protection to the central nervous system as well as an essential homeostatic environment for the normal functioning of neurons. Additionally, it has been proposed that the pulsatile movement of CSF may assist in glymphatic clearance of brain metabolic waste products implicated in neurodegeneration. In awake humans, CSF flow dynamics are thought to be driven primarily by cerebral blood volume fluctuations resulting from a number of mechanisms, including a passive vascular response to blood pressure variations associated with cardiac and respiratory cycles. Recent research has shown that mechanisms that rely on the action of vascular smooth muscle cells ("cerebrovascular activity") such as neuronal activity, changes in intravascular CO2, and autonomic activation from the brainstem, may lead to CSF pulsations as well. Nevertheless, the relative contribution of these mechanisms to CSF flow remains unclear. To investigate this further, we developed an MRI approach capable of disentangling and quantifying CSF flow components of different time scales associated with these mechanisms. This approach was evaluated on human control subjects (n = 12) performing intermittent voluntary deep inspirations, by determining peak flow velocities and displaced volumes between these mechanisms in the fourth ventricle. We found that peak flow velocities were similar between the different mechanisms, while displaced volumes per cycle were about a magnitude larger for deep inspirations. CSF flow velocity peaked at around 10.4 s (range 7.1-14.8 s, n = 12) following deep inspiration, consistent with known cerebrovascular activation delays for this autonomic challenge. These findings point to an important role of cerebrovascular activity in the genesis of CSF pulsations. Other regulatory triggers for cerebral blood flow such as autonomic arousal and orthostatic challenges may create major CSF pulsatile movement as well. Future quantitative comparison of these and possibly additional types of CSF pulsations with the proposed approach may help clarify the conditions that affect CSF flow dynamics.
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- Yicun Wang
- Advanced MRI Section, Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States.
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- Advanced MRI Section, Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Advanced MRI Section, Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Advanced MRI Section, Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Advanced MRI Section, Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Advanced MRI Section, Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Advanced MRI Section, Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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Salman HE, Jurisch-Yaksi N, Yalcin HC. Computational Modeling of Motile Cilia-Driven Cerebrospinal Flow in the Brain Ventricles of Zebrafish Embryo. Bioengineering (Basel) 2022; 9:bioengineering9090421. [PMID: 36134967 PMCID: PMC9495466 DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering9090421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2022] [Revised: 07/04/2022] [Accepted: 07/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Motile cilia are hair-like microscopic structures which generate directional flow to provide fluid transport in various biological processes. Ciliary beating is one of the sources of cerebrospinal flow (CSF) in brain ventricles. In this study, we investigated how the tilt angle, quantity, and phase relationship of cilia affect CSF flow patterns in the brain ventricles of zebrafish embryos. For this purpose, two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations are performed to determine the flow fields generated by the motile cilia. The cilia are modeled as thin membranes with prescribed motions. The cilia motions were obtained from a two-day post-fertilization zebrafish embryo previously imaged via light sheet fluorescence microscopy. We observed that the cilium angle significantly alters the generated flow velocity and mass flow rates. As the cilium angle gets closer to the wall, higher flow velocities are observed. Phase difference between two adjacent beating cilia also affects the flow field as the cilia with no phase difference produce significantly lower mass flow rates. In conclusion, our simulations revealed that the most efficient method for cilia-driven fluid transport relies on the alignment of multiple cilia beating with a phase difference, which is also observed in vivo in the developing zebrafish brain.
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- Huseyin Enes Salman
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara 06510, Turkey
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- Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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Vijayakrishnan Nair V, Kish BR, Inglis B, Yang HC(S, Wright AM, Wu YC, Zhou X, Schwichtenberg AJ, Tong Y. Human CSF movement influenced by vascular low frequency oscillations and respiration. Front Physiol 2022; 13:940140. [PMID: 36060685 PMCID: PMC9437252 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.940140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2022] [Accepted: 07/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) movement through the pathways within the central nervous system is of high significance for maintaining normal brain health and function. Low frequency hemodynamics and respiration have been shown to drive CSF in humans independently. Here, we hypothesize that CSF movement may be driven simultaneously (and in synchrony) by both mechanisms and study their independent and coupled effects on CSF movement using novel neck fMRI scans. Caudad CSF movement at the fourth ventricle and hemodynamics of the major neck blood vessels (internal carotid arteries and internal jugular veins) was measured from 11 young, healthy volunteers using novel neck fMRI scans with simultaneous measurement of respiration. Two distinct models of CSF movement (1. Low-frequency hemodynamics and 2. Respiration) and possible coupling between them were investigated. We show that the dynamics of brain fluids can be assessed from the neck by studying the interrelationships between major neck blood vessels and the CSF movement in the fourth ventricle. We also demonstrate that there exists a cross-frequency coupling between these two separable mechanisms. The human CSF system can respond to multiple coupled physiological forces at the same time. This information may help inform the pathological mechanisms behind CSF movement-related disorders.
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- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
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- Henry H. Wheeler, Jr. Brain Imaging Center, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, United States
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- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
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- Stark Neuroscience Research Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, United States
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- School of Health Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Health and Human Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
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- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
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Sheng J, Li Q, Liu T, Wang X. Cerebrospinal fluid dynamics along the optic nerve. Front Neurol 2022; 13:931523. [PMID: 36046631 PMCID: PMC9420993 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2022.931523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2022] [Accepted: 07/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) plays an important role in delivering nutrients and eliminating the metabolic wastes of the central nervous system. An interrupted CSF flow could cause disorders of the brain and eyes such as Alzheimer's disease and glaucoma. This review provides an overview of the anatomy and flow pathways of the CSF system with an emphasis on the optic nerve. Imaging technologies used for visualizing the CSF dynamics and the anatomic structures associated with CSF circulation have been highlighted. Recent advances in the use of computational models to predict CSF flow patterns have been introduced. Open questions and potential mechanisms underlying CSF circulation at the optic nerves have also been discussed.
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- Jinqiao Sheng
- Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
- School of General Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
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- Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
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- Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
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- Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Xiaofei Wang
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The glymphatic system: implications for drugs for central nervous system diseases. Nat Rev Drug Discov 2022; 21:763-779. [PMID: 35948785 DOI: 10.1038/s41573-022-00500-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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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, cerebrospinal fluid flows directionally through the brain and non-selectively clears the interstitium of metabolic waste. Importantly, the glymphatic system may be modulated by particular drugs such as anaesthetics, as well as by non-pharmacological factors such as sleep, and its dysfunction has been implicated in central nervous system disorders such as Alzheimer disease. Although the glymphatic system is best described in rodents, reports using multiple neuroimaging modalities indicate that a similar transport system exists in the human brain. Here, we overview the evidence for the glymphatic system and its role in disease and discuss opportunities to harness the glymphatic system therapeutically; for example, by improving the effectiveness of intrathecally delivered drugs.
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Assessing pulsatile waveforms of paravascular cerebrospinal fluid dynamics using dynamic diffusion-weighted imaging (dDWI). Neuroimage 2022; 260:119464. [PMID: 35835339 PMCID: PMC9434732 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2022] [Revised: 07/08/2022] [Accepted: 07/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the paravascular spaces of the surface arteries (sPVS) is a vital pathway in brain waste clearance. Arterial pulsations may be the driving force of the paravascular flow, but its pulsatile pattern remains poorly characterized, and no clinically practical method for measuring its dynamics in the human brain is available. In this work, we introduce an imaging and quantification framework for in-vivo non-invasive assessment of pulsatile fluid dynamics in the sPVS. It used dynamic Diffusion-Weighted Imaging (dDWI) at a lower b-values of 150s/mm2 and retrospective gating to detect the slow flow of CSF while suppressing the fast flow of adjacent arterial blood. The waveform of CSF flow over a cardiac cycle was revealed by synchronizing the measurements with the heartbeat. A data-driven approach was developed to identify sPVS and allow automatic quantification of the whole-brain fluid waveforms. We applied dDWI to twenty-five participants aged 18–82 y/o. Results demonstrated that the fluid waveforms across the brain showed an explicit cardiac-cycle dependency, in good agreement with the vascular pumping hypothesis. Furthermore, the shape of the CSF waveforms closely resembled the pressure waveforms of the artery wall, suggesting that CSF dynamics is tightly related to artery wall mechanics. Finally, the CSF waveforms in aging participants revealed a strong age effect, with a significantly wider systolic peak observed in the older relative to younger participants. The peak widening may be associated with compromised vascular compliance and vessel wall stiffening in the older brain. Overall, the results demonstrate the feasibility, reproducibility, and sensitivity of dDWI for detecting sPVS fluid dynamics of the human brain. Our preliminary data suggest age-related alterations of the paravascular pumping. With an acquisition time of under six minutes, dDWI can be readily applied to study fluid dynamics in normal physiological conditions and cerebrovascular/neurodegenerative diseases.
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Barkaway A, Attwell D, Korte N. Immune-vascular mural cell interactions: consequences for immune cell trafficking, cerebral blood flow, and the blood-brain barrier. NEUROPHOTONICS 2022; 9:031914. [PMID: 35581998 PMCID: PMC9107322 DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.9.3.031914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2021] [Accepted: 04/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Brain barriers are crucial sites for cerebral energy supply, waste removal, immune cell migration, and solute exchange, all of which maintain an appropriate environment for neuronal activity. At the capillary level, where the largest area of brain-vascular interface occurs, pericytes adjust cerebral blood flow (CBF) by regulating capillary diameter and maintain the blood-brain barrier (BBB) by suppressing endothelial cell (EC) transcytosis and inducing tight junction expression between ECs. Pericytes also limit the infiltration of circulating leukocytes into the brain where resident microglia confine brain injury and provide the first line of defence against invading pathogens. Brain "waste" is cleared across the BBB into the blood, phagocytosed by microglia and astrocytes, or removed by the flow of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) through perivascular routes-a process driven by respiratory motion and the pulsation of the heart, arteriolar smooth muscle, and possibly pericytes. "Dirty" CSF exits the brain and is probably drained around olfactory nerve rootlets and via the dural meningeal lymphatic vessels and possibly the skull bone marrow. The brain is widely regarded as an immune-privileged organ because it is accessible to few antigen-primed leukocytes. Leukocytes enter the brain via the meninges, the BBB, and the blood-CSF barrier. Advances in genetic and imaging tools have revealed that neurological diseases significantly alter immune-brain barrier interactions in at least three ways: (1) the brain's immune-privileged status is compromised when pericytes are lost or lymphatic vessels are dysregulated; (2) immune cells release vasoactive molecules to regulate CBF, modulate arteriole stiffness, and can plug and eliminate capillaries which impairs CBF and possibly waste clearance; and (3) immune-vascular interactions can make the BBB leaky via multiple mechanisms, thus aggravating the influx of undesirable substances and cells. Here, we review developments in these three areas and briefly discuss potential therapeutic avenues for restoring brain barrier functions.
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- Anna Barkaway
- University College London, Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, London, United Kingdom
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- University College London, Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, London, United Kingdom
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- University College London, Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, London, United Kingdom
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Khang M, Bindra RS, Mark Saltzman W. Intrathecal delivery and its applications in leptomeningeal disease. Adv Drug Deliv Rev 2022; 186:114338. [PMID: 35561835 DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2022.114338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2021] [Revised: 04/26/2022] [Accepted: 05/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Intrathecal delivery (IT) of opiates into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for anesthesia and pain relief has been used clinically for decades, but this relatively straightforward approach of bypassing the blood-brain barrier has been underutilized for other indications because of its lack of utility in delivering small lipid-soluble drugs. However, emerging evidence suggests that IT drug delivery be an efficacious strategy for the treatment of cancers in which there is leptomeningeal spread of disease. In this review, we discuss CSF flow dynamics and CSF clearance pathways in the context of intrathecal delivery. We discuss human and animal studies of several new classes of therapeutic agents-cellular, protein, nucleic acid, and nanoparticle-based small molecules-that may benefit from IT delivery. The complexity of the CSF compartment presents several key challenges in predicting biodistribution of IT-delivered drugs. New approaches and strategies are needed that can overcome the high rates of turnover in the CSF to reach specific tissues or cellular targets.
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Yildiz S, Grinstead J, Hildebrand A, Oshinski J, Rooney WD, Lim MM, Oken B. Immediate impact of yogic breathing on pulsatile cerebrospinal fluid dynamics. Sci Rep 2022; 12:10894. [PMID: 35764793 PMCID: PMC9240010 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-15034-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2022] [Accepted: 06/16/2022] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), a clear fluid bathing the central nervous system (CNS), undergoes pulsatile movements. Together with interstitial fluid, CSF plays a critical role for the removal of waste products from the brain, and maintenance of the CNS health. As such, understanding the mechanisms driving CSF movement is of high scientific and clinical impact. Since pulsatile CSF dynamics is sensitive and synchronous to respiratory movements, we are interested in identifying potential integrative therapies such as yogic breathing to regulate CSF dynamics, which has not been reported before. Here, we investigated the pre-intervention baseline data from our ongoing randomized controlled trial, and examined the impact of four yogic breathing patterns: (i) slow, (ii) deep abdominal, (iii) deep diaphragmatic, and (iv) deep chest breathing with the last three together forming a yogic breathing called three-part breath. We utilized our previously established non-invasive real-time phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging approach using a 3T MRI instrument, computed and tested differences in single voxel CSF velocities (instantaneous, respiratory, cardiac 1st and 2nd harmonics) at the level of foramen magnum during spontaneous versus yogic breathing. In examinations of 18 healthy participants (eight females, ten males; mean age 34.9 ± 14 (SD) years; age range: 18-61 years), we observed immediate increase in cranially-directed velocities of instantaneous-CSF 16-28% and respiratory-CSF 60-118% during four breathing patterns compared to spontaneous breathing, with the greatest changes during deep abdominal breathing (28%, p = 0.0008, and 118%, p = 0.0001, respectively). Cardiac pulsation was the primary source of pulsatile CSF motion except during deep abdominal breathing, when there was a comparable contribution of respiratory and cardiac 1st harmonic power [0.59 ± 0.78], suggesting respiration can be the primary regulator of CSF depending on the individual differences in breathing techniques. Further work is needed to investigate the impact of sustained training yogic breathing on pulsatile CSF dynamics for CNS health.
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- Selda Yildiz
- Department of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR, 97239, USA.
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- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
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- Biostatistics and Design Program, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
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- Radiology & Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Emory School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
- Advanced Imaging Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
- Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
- Knight Cardiovascular Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
- Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
- VA Portland Health Care System, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
- Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
- Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
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Real-Time Phase-Contrast MRI to Monitor Cervical Blood and Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow Beat-by-Beat Variability. BIOSENSORS 2022; 12:bios12060417. [PMID: 35735564 PMCID: PMC9221193 DOI: 10.3390/bios12060417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2022] [Revised: 06/10/2022] [Accepted: 06/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Beat-by-beat variability (BBV) rhythms are observed in both cardiovascular (CV) and intracranial (IC) compartments, yet interactions between the two are not fully understood. Real-Time Phase-Contrast (RT-PC) MRI sequence was acquired for 30 healthy volunteers at 1st cervical level on a 3T scanner. The arterial (AF), venous (VF), and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow (CSFF) were computed as velocity integrals over the internal carotid artery, internal jugular vein, and CSF. AF, VF, and CSFF signals were segmented in inspiration and expiration beats, to assess the respiration influence. Systolic and diastolic BBV, and heart period series underwent autoregressive power spectral density analysis, to evaluate the low-frequency (LF, Mayer waves) and high frequency (HF, respiratory waves) components. The diastolic VF had the largest BBV. LF power was high in the diastolic AF series, poor in all CSFF series. The pulse wave analyses revealed higher mean amplitude during inspiration. Findings suggests a possible role of LF modulation of IC resistances and propagation of HF waves from VF to AF and CCSF. PC-RT-MRI could provide new insight into the interaction between CV and IC regulation and pave the way for a detailed analysis of the cerebrovascular effects of varied respiration patterns due to exercise and rehabilitation.
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Use of real-time phase-contrast MRI to quantify the effect of spontaneous breathing on the cerebral arteries. Neuroimage 2022; 258:119361. [PMID: 35688317 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2022] [Revised: 05/05/2022] [Accepted: 06/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Quantification of the effect of breathing on the cerebral circulation provides a better mechanistic understanding of the brain's circulatory system and is important in the early diagnosis of certain neurological diseases. However, conventional cine phase-contrast (CINE-PC) MRI cannot be used in this field of study because it only provides an average cardiac cycle flow curve reconstructed from multiple cardiac cycles. Unlike CINE-PC, phase-contrast echo-planar imaging (EPI-PC) can be used to quantify the blood flow rate in "real-time" and thus assess the effect of breathing on blood flow. Here, we first used post-processing software (developed in-house) to determine the feasibility of quantifying cerebral arterial blood flow with EPI-PC (relative to CINE-PC) in 16 participants. In a second step, we developed a new time-domain method for quantifying the intensity and the phase shift of the effects of breathing on the mean flow rate, stroke volume, cardiac period and amplitude of cerebral blood flow (in 10 participants). Our results showed that EPI-PC can quantify cerebral arterial blood flow rate with much the same degree of accuracy as CINE-PC but is more strongly influenced by differences in magnetic susceptibility. We found that breathing affected the mean flow rate, stroke volume and cardiac period of cerebral arterial blood flow.
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Yang HCS, Inglis B, Talavage TM, Nair VV, Yao JF, Fitzgerald B, Schwichtenberg AJ, Tong Y. Coupling between cerebrovascular oscillations and CSF flow fluctuations during wakefulness: An fMRI study. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2022; 42:1091-1103. [PMID: 35037498 PMCID: PMC9125495 DOI: 10.1177/0271678x221074639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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It is commonly believed that cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) movement is facilitated by blood vessel wall movements (i.e., hemodynamic oscillations) in the brain. A coherent pattern of low frequency hemodynamic oscillations and CSF movement was recently found during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep via functional MRI. This finding raises other fundamental questions: 1) the explanation of coupling between hemodynamic oscillations and CSF movement from fMRI signals; 2) the existence of the coupling during wakefulness; 3) the direction of CSF movement. In this resting state fMRI study, we proposed a mechanical model to explain the coupling between hemodynamics and CSF movement through the lens of fMRI. Time delays between CSF movement and global hemodynamics were calculated. The observed delays between hemodynamics and CSF movement match those predicted by the model. Moreover, by conducting separate fMRI scans of the brain and neck, we confirmed the low frequency CSF movement at the fourth ventricle is bidirectional. Our finding also demonstrates that CSF movement is facilitated by changes in cerebral blood volume mainly in the low frequency range, even when the individual is awake.
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- Ho-Ching Shawn Yang
- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, 311308Purdue University, College of Health and Human Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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The Underlying Role of the Glymphatic System and Meningeal Lymphatic Vessels in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease. Biomolecules 2022; 12:biom12060748. [PMID: 35740873 PMCID: PMC9221030 DOI: 10.3390/biom12060748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2022] [Revised: 05/21/2022] [Accepted: 05/24/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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There is a growing prevalence of vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) worldwide, and most research has suggested that cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) is the main contributor to VCI. Several potential physiopathologic mechanisms have been proven to be involved in the process of CSVD, such as blood-brain barrier damage, small vessels stiffening, venous collagenosis, cerebral blood flow reduction, white matter rarefaction, chronic ischaemia, neuroinflammation, myelin damage, and subsequent neurodegeneration. However, there still is a limited overall understanding of the sequence and the relative importance of these mechanisms. The glymphatic system (GS) and meningeal lymphatic vessels (mLVs) are the analogs of the lymphatic system in the central nervous system (CNS). As such, these systems play critical roles in regulating cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and interstitial fluid (ISF) transport, waste clearance, and, potentially, neuroinflammation. Accumulating evidence has suggested that the glymphatic and meningeal lymphatic vessels played vital roles in animal models of CSVD and patients with CSVD. Given the complexity of CSVD, it was significant to understand the underlying interaction between glymphatic and meningeal lymphatic transport with CSVD. Here, we provide a novel framework based on new advances in main four aspects, including vascular risk factors, potential mechanisms, clinical subtypes, and cognition, which aims to explain how the glymphatic system and meningeal lymphatic vessels contribute to the progression of CSVD and proposes a comprehensive insight into the novel therapeutic strategy of CSVD.
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Barisano G, Lynch KM, Sibilia F, Lan H, Shih NC, Sepehrband F, Choupan J. Imaging perivascular space structure and function using brain MRI. Neuroimage 2022; 257:119329. [PMID: 35609770 PMCID: PMC9233116 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2022] [Revised: 05/04/2022] [Accepted: 05/19/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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In this article, we provide an overview of current neuroimaging methods for studying perivascular spaces (PVS) in humans using brain MRI. In recent years, an increasing number of studies highlighted the role of PVS in cerebrospinal/interstial fluid circulation and clearance of cerebral waste products and their association with neurological diseases. Novel strategies and techniques have been introduced to improve the quantification of PVS and to investigate their function and morphological features in physiological and pathological conditions. After a brief introduction on the anatomy and physiology of PVS, we examine the latest technological developments to quantitatively analyze the structure and function of PVS in humans with MRI. We describe the applications, advantages, and limitations of these methods, providing guidance and suggestions on the acquisition protocols and analysis techniques that can be applied to study PVS in vivo. Finally, we review the human neuroimaging studies on PVS across the normative lifespan and in the context of neurological disorders.
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- Giuseppe Barisano
- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA; Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA..
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- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA; Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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Yi T, Gao P, Zhu T, Yin H, Jin S. Glymphatic System Dysfunction: A Novel Mediator of Sleep Disorders and Headaches. Front Neurol 2022; 13:885020. [PMID: 35665055 PMCID: PMC9160458 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2022.885020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2022] [Accepted: 04/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Sleep contributes to the maintenance of overall health and well-being. There are a growing number of patients who have headache disorders that are significantly affected by poor sleep. This is a paradoxical relationship, whereby sleep deprivation or excess sleep leads to a worsening of headaches, yet sleep onset also alleviates ongoing headache pain. Currently, the mechanism of action remains controversial and poorly understood. The glymphatic system is a newly discovered perivascular network that encompasses the whole brain and is responsible for removing toxic proteins and waste metabolites from the brain as well as replenishing nutrition and energy. Recent studies have suggested that glymphatic dysfunction is a common underlying etiology of sleep disorders and headache pain. This study reviews the current literature on the relationship between the glymphatic system, sleep, and headaches, discusses their roles, and proposes acupuncture as a non-invasive way to focus on the glymphatic function to improve sleep quality and alleviate headache pain.
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- Ting Yi
- Rehabilitation and Health Preservation School, Chengdu University of TCM, Chengdu, China
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- Rehabilitation and Health Preservation School, Chengdu University of TCM, Chengdu, China
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- Rehabilitation and Health Preservation School, Chengdu University of TCM, Chengdu, China
- Tianmin Zhu
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- School of Acupuncture and Tuina, Chengdu University of TCM, Chengdu, China
- *Correspondence: Haiyan Yin
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- Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China
- Shuoguo Jin
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Faryami A, Menkara A, Viar D, Harris CA. Testing and validation of reciprocating positive displacement pump for benchtop pulsating flow model of cerebrospinal fluid production and other physiologic systems. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0262372. [PMID: 35550626 PMCID: PMC9098063 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0262372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2021] [Accepted: 04/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The flow of physiologic fluids through organs and organs systems is an integral component of their function. The complex fluid dynamics in many organ systems are still not completely understood, and in-vivo measurements of flow rates and pressure provide a testament to the complexity of each flow system. Variability in in-vivo measurements and the lack of control over flow characteristics leave a lot to be desired for testing and evaluation of current modes of treatments as well as future innovations. In-vitro models are particularly ideal for studying neurological conditions such as hydrocephalus due to their complex pathophysiology and interactions with therapeutic measures. The following aims to present the reciprocating positive displacement pump, capable of inducing pulsating flow of a defined volume at a controlled beat rate and amplitude. While the other fluidic applications of the pump are currently under investigation, this study was focused on simulating the pulsating cerebrospinal fluid production across profiles with varying parameters. METHODS Pumps were manufactured using 3D printed and injection molded parts. The pumps were powered by an Arduino-based board and proprietary software that controls the linear motion of the pumps to achieve the specified output rate at the desired pulsation rate and amplitude. A range of 0.01 [Formula: see text] to 0.7 [Formula: see text] was tested to evaluate the versatility of the pumps. The accuracy and precision of the pumps' output were evaluated by obtaining a total of 150 one-minute weight measurements of degassed deionized water per output rate across 15 pump channels. In addition, nine experiments were performed to evaluate the pumps' control over pulsation rate and amplitude. RESULTS Volumetric analysis of a total of 1200 readings determined that the pumps achieved the target output volume rate with a mean absolute error of -0.001034283 [Formula: see text] across the specified domain. It was also determined that the pumps can maintain pulsatile flow at a user-specified beat rate and amplitude. CONCLUSION The validation of this reciprocating positive displacement pump system allows for the future validation of novel designs to components used to treat hydrocephalus and other physiologic models involving pulsatile flow. Based on the promising results of these experiments at simulating pulsatile CSF flow, a benchtop model of human CSF production and distribution could be achieved through the incorporation of a chamber system and a compliance component.
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- Ahmad Faryami
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States of America
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America
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- Wayne State University Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Detroit, MI, United States of America
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