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Sleep Drives Metabolite Clearance from the Adult Brain
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Taking Out the Trash: The purpose of sleep remains mysterious. Using state-of-the-art in vivo two-photon imaging to directly compare two arousal states in the same mouse, Xie et al. (p. 373 ; see the Perspective by Herculano-Houzel ) found that metabolic waste products of neural activity were cleared out of the sleeping brain at a faster rate than during the awake state. This finding suggests a mechanistic explanation for how sleep serves a restorative function, in addition to its well-described effects on memory consolidation.
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“The interstitial concentration of Aβ is higher in awake than in sleeping rodents and humans”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [15] Bateman RJ Nat Med 12 856 861 2006 16799555 PMC2983090 source
- Partly supportedcites [16] Kang JE Science 326 1005 1007 2009 19779148 PMC2789838 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The paper reports that rodent interstitial-fluid Aβ levels correlate positively with time awake and negatively with time asleep (passage 1, labeled Abstract). In humans, however, it measured Aβ in cerebrospinal fluid, not interstitial fluid, and reported a diurnal fluctuation rather than a direct awake-versus-asleep comparison (passage 5, labeled Abstract). (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Deletion of AQP4 channels reduces clearance of exogenous Aβ by 65%”
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- Partly supportedcites [12] Iliff JJ Sci Transl Med 4 147ra111 2012 PMC3551275 22896675 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results section (“AQP4 facilitates the para-vascular clearance of interstitial amyloid β”; page unavailable) reports reduced clearance of injected Aβ in Aqp4-null mice compared with wild-type controls. It gives the reduction as approximately 55%, not 65%. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) recirculates through the brain, interchanging with interstitial fluid (ISF) and removing interstitial proteins, including Aβ (12, 13).”
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- Supportedcites [12] Iliff JJ Sci Transl Med 4 147ra111 2012 PMC3551275 22896675 source
The Discussion describes CSF entering the brain interstitium, followed by ISF clearance along draining veins, and identifies this flow as a contributor to clearing interstitial solutes, likely including soluble Aβ1–40. The Results also report that a portion of Aβ in CSF may recirculate through the brain. These findings come from experiments in mice. (LLM, conf=0.92)
- Supportedcites [13] Iliff JJ J Clin Invest 123 1299 1309 2013 23434588 PMC3582150 source
The Introduction (p. 1) states that subarachnoid CSF recirculates through the brain parenchyma, exchanges with ISF, and facilitates clearance of interstitial solutes including soluble amyloid β. The paper attributes the amyloid-clearance finding to its authors’ earlier study, but reports and relies on that finding here. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“Proteins linked to neurodegenerative diseases, including β-amyloid (Aβ) (8), α-synuclein (9), and tau (10), are present in the interstitial space surrounding cells of the brain.”
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What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [8] Cirrito JR Neuron 48 913 922 2005 16364896 source
- Supportedcites [9] Larson ME J Neurosci 32 10253 10266 2012 22836259 PMC3425439 source
Citation (9) is attached to α-synuclein, not to the separate claims about β-amyloid or tau. The Results section (‘Segregation of brain protein pools’) says α-synuclein was detected in an extracellular fraction and reports evidence that it is secreted into brain interstitial fluid. (LLM, conf=0.92)
- Supportedcites [10] Yamada K J Neurosci 31 13110 13117 2011 21917794 PMC4299126 source
Citation (10) is attached to tau, not to β-amyloid or α-synuclein. The Results section, “Full-length tau is present in ISF” (page unavailable), reports detecting tau in brain interstitial fluid from both wild-type and P301S transgenic mice. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“Influx of CSF is in part driven by arterial pulse waves that propel the movement of CSF inward along periarterial spaces (12).”
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- Supportedcites [12] Iliff JJ Sci Transl Med 4 147ra111 2012 PMC3551275 22896675 source
The Results section reports CSF entering the brain along arteries and describes rapid para-arterial flow into the parenchyma as driven by arterial pulsation. The Discussion qualifies this mechanism as likely, consistent with the claim’s ‘in part driven’ wording. Page numbers are not provided in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“suggesting that convective movement of ISF is a substantial contributor to the removal of interstitial waste products and other products of cellular activity (12).”
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- Supportedcites [12] Iliff JJ Sci Transl Med 4 147ra111 2012 PMC3551275 22896675 source
The Discussion states that interstitial bulk flow is a critical contributor to clearing interstitial solutes from the brain. The Results also identify bulk ISF flow, rather than diffusion, as responsible for clearing interstitially delivered tracers. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“TMA recordings showed that inhibition of adrenergic signaling in cortex increased the interstitial volume fraction from 14.3 ± 5.2% to 22.6 ± 1.2% (n = 4 to 8 mice, P < 0.01, t test).”
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“In sleeping mice, a robust influx of the fluorescent CSF tracer was noted along periarterial spaces, in the subpial regions, and in the brain parenchyma”
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“Periarterial and parenchymal tracer influx was reduced by ~95% in awake as compared with sleeping mice during the 30-min imaging session”
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“Aβ was cleared twofold faster in the sleeping mice as compared with the awake mice (n = 23 to 29 mice, P < 0.05, ANOVA with Bonferroni test)”
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“In particular, locus coeruleus–derived noradrenergic signaling appears critical for driving cortical networks into the awake state of processing (26, 27).”
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What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [26] Carter ME Nat Neurosci 13 1526 1533 2010 21037585 PMC3174240 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results (page not available) report that stimulating locus coeruleus neurons caused immediate sleep-to-wake transitions and changes in cortical EEG in mice, supporting a role in driving the cortex toward an awake state. The Discussion (page not available) says the locus coeruleus is sufficient for these transitions but not necessary for them; the study also does not directly assess cortical processing. Thus, calling its signaling critical for driving that processing overstates the evidence. (LLM, conf=0.86)
- Supportedcites [27] Constantinople CM Bruno RM Neuron 69 1061 1068 2011 21435553 PMC3069934 source
The Introduction states that wakefulness changed cortical processing in rat barrel cortex through direct noradrenergic modulation and concludes that arousal-related brain states act via the locus coeruleus–noradrenergic system. The Results section, “Norepinephrine is critical for awake Vm,” further reports that noradrenergic receptor blockade and an ipsilateral locus coeruleus lesion prevented sustained depolarization. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“In peripheral tissues, such as kidney and heart, noradrenaline regulates the activity of membrane transporters and channels that control cell volume (28).”
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- Could not verifycites [28] O’Donnell J Zeppenfeld D McConnell E Pena S Nedergaard M Neurochem Res 37 2496 2512 2012 22717696 PMC3548657 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The astrocyte β-adrenergic-receptors section discusses regulation of Na+/K+-ATPase and potassium clearance in the brain, not cell-volume control in peripheral tissues. Searches for kidney, heart, cell volume, and peripheral transporters found no passage in our copy addressing the attributed claim; page numbers were not available. (LLM, conf=0.72)
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“These pathways were named the glymphatic system on the basis of their dependence on astrocytic aquaporin-4 (AQP4) water channels and the adoption of functions homologous to peripheral lymphatic removal of interstitial metabolic byproducts (14).”
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- Supportedcites [14] Nedergaard M Science 340 1529 1530 2013 23812703 PMC3749839 source
The Abstract says the pathway was named the “glymphatic system” for its dependence on glial water channels and its clearance function similar to that of the peripheral lymphatic system. It also identifies astrocytic AQP4 channels as facilitating flow and describes the pathway carrying waste products out of brain interstitial fluid. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Other reports have shown that the interstitial volume is ~19% in anesthetized young mice but declines to ~13% in aged mice (22).”
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- Partly supportedcites [22] Syková E Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102 479 484 2005 15630088 PMC544312 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Table 1 (Results; page not available) reports an extracellular-space volume fraction of 19.9% in 6–8-month-old control females and 13.2% in 17–25-month-old control females; Materials and Methods says the animals were anesthetized. The claim omits the restriction to control females: aged control males had a value of 16.1%, while aged APP23 mice showed an increase rather than a decline. (LLM, conf=0.89)
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“Several degradation products of cellular activity, such as Aβ oligomers and amyloid depositions, have adverse effects on synaptic transmission (30) and cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations (31) and can trigger irreversible neuronal injury (32).”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [30] Parameshwaran K Dhanasekaran M Suppiramaniam V Exp Neurol 210 7 13 2008 18053990 source
- Supportedcites [31] Kuchibhotla KV Neuron 59 214 225 2008 18667150 PMC2578820 source
Citation (31) is attached to the claim about cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations, not the separate claims about synaptic transmission or irreversible injury. The Discussion reports that mutant APP processing and plaque deposition induce calcium overload in the studied Alzheimer’s disease mouse models; the Introduction also describes pathological increases in intracellular Ca2+ associated with amyloid-beta aggregates. (LLM, conf=0.92)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [32] Mattson MP Ann N Y Acad Sci 747 50 76 1994 7847692 source
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“NE triggers rapid changes in neural activity (27, 28), which in turn can modulate the volume of the interstitial space volume (29).”
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- Supportedcites [27] Constantinople CM Bruno RM Neuron 69 1061 1068 2011 21435553 PMC3069934 source
The Results section (“Norepinephrine is critical for awake Vm”; page unavailable) reports that blocking NE receptors changes cortical activity during wakefulness, and the Discussion describes NE’s powerful effects on cortical dynamics. The Results section (“Wakefulness alters cortical dynamics”; page unavailable) describes changes around awakening. This source supports the NE–neural-activity clause; the separate claim about interstitial-space volume is attributed to citation 29, not this paper. (LLM, conf=0.86)
- Supportedcites [28] O’Donnell J Zeppenfeld D McConnell E Pena S Nedergaard M Neurochem Res 37 2496 2512 2012 22717696 PMC3548657 source
The source supports the first clause, for which citations (27, 28) are given: its Introduction describes NE-mediated phasic firing as a mechanism of rapid reorientation and says NE can alter cortical responses. The interstitial-space clause has a separate citation (29) and is not attributed to this source in the citing sentence. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.89)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [29] McBain CJ Traynelis SF Dingledine R Science 249 674 677 1990 2382142 source
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“Microdialysis samples of the interstitial fluid showed that the NE concentration did not increase in trained mice during restraining but that NE, as expected, fell after administration of ketamine/xylazine”
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“Interstitial volume was significantly greater than in awake littermates exposed to vehicle (aCSF) (P < 0.01) but comparable with the interstitial volume in sleeping or anesthetized mice (P = 0.77 and P = 0.95, respectively, t test)”
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“CSF tracer influx into the brain was largely absent and only slowly gained access to the superficial cortical layers”
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“Our analysis indicates that the cortical interstitial space increases by more than 60% during sleep, resulting in efficient convective clearance of Aβ and other compounds (Figs. 2 and 3).”
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“Collectively, these observations support the notion that influx of CSF tracers is suppressed in awake mice as a result of contraction of the interstitial space: The smaller space during wakefulness increases tissue resistance to interstitial fluid flux and inward movement of CSF.”
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“fatal familial or sporadic insomnia is a progressively worsening state of sleeplessness that leads to dementia and death within months or years (7).”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [7] Montagna P Gambetti P Cortelli P Lugaresi E Lancet Neurol 2 167 176 2003 12849238 source
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“These analyses suggest that adrenergic signaling plays an important role in modulating not only cortical neuronal activity but also the volume of the interstitial space.”
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“Arousal is driven by the concerted release of neuromodulators (25).”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [25] Steriade M McCormick DA Sejnowski TJ Science 262 679 685 1993 8235588 source
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“Recordings obtained 300 μm below the cortical surface did not differ significantly from those obtained at 150 μm, suggesting that preparation of the cranial window was not associated with tissue injury (n = 6 mice, P > 0.4, t test)”
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“continuous sleep deprivation kills rodents and flies within a period of days to weeks (5, 6).”
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“Sleep deprivation reduces learning, impairs performance in cognitive tests, prolongs reaction time, and is a common cause of seizures (3, 4).”
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“The observation that anesthesia increases glymphatic influx and efflux (Figs. 1 and 3), suggests that it is not circadian rhythm but rather the sleep-wake state itself that determines the volume of the interstitial space and therefore the efficiency of glymphatic solute clearance.”
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The brain lacks a conventional lymphatic system.
“Yet despite its high metabolic rate and the fragility of neurons to toxic waste products, the brain lacks a conventional lymphatic system.”
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The convective exchange of CSF and ISF is organized around the cerebral vasculature, with CSF influx around arteries, whereas ISF exits along veins.
“The convective exchange of CSF and ISF is organized around the cerebral vasculature, with CSF influx around arteries, whereas ISF exits along veins.”
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Sleep serves a vital function.
“The conservation of sleep across all animal species suggests that sleep serves a vital function.”
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“This was the discovery of the brain's glymphatic system, showing that sleep involves the brain-wide flushing of metabolites with cerebral spinal fluid.28”
From The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization (2021) · cites this paper as [28]
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“This led to the theory that sleep, especially during slow wave activity, had the goal of waste clearance and this is at least partly behind sleep's restorative aspect.”
From The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization (2021) · cites this paper as [28]
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“For example, transport studies using radiolabeled and unlabeled Alzheimer's A 𝛃 peptide have shown that under physiological conditions, the perivascular ISF flow contributes to 15-20% of A 𝛃 clearance from the mouse brain (58, 535, 659), whereas 8085% is removed by transvascular BBB transport.”
From Blood-Brain Barrier: From Physiology to Disease and Back (2019) · cites this paper as [659]
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“whereas 8085% is removed by transvascular BBB transport.”
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“Panadrenergic inhibition (i.p. administration of the α1-adrenergic receptor antagonist prazosin, the broad β-adrenergic receptor antagonist propranolol, and the α2-adrenergic antagonist atipamezole, PPA13,14) blocked the LC-induced decrease in blood albumin signal (Figure 1H).”
From Norepinephrine-mediated slow vasomotion drives glymphatic clearance during sleep (2025) · cites this paper as [14]
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“The results presented here provide further support to prior studies that identified sleep as a key driver of glymphatic flow in the rodent and human brain14,16,19,63.”
From Norepinephrine-mediated slow vasomotion drives glymphatic clearance during sleep (2025) · cites this paper as [14]
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“Such valves will, combined with the oscillatory pressure imposed by the vascular dynamics and the enlarged brain interstitial space, propel CSF influx as a consequence of reduced parenchymal resistance toward fluid flow during sleep14.”
From Norepinephrine-mediated slow vasomotion drives glymphatic clearance during sleep (2025) · cites this paper as [14]
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Metadata
- Authors
- Xie, L., Kang, H., Xu, Q., Chen, M. J., Liao, Y., Thiyagarajan, M., O’Donnell, J., Christensen, D. J., Nicholson, C., Iliff, J. J., Takano, T., Deane, R., & Nedergaard, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Rochester Medicine (US)
- NYU Langone Health (US)
- Corresponding author
- Xie, Lulu
- Kang, Hongyi
- Nedergaard, Maiken
- ORCID
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2013-10-18
- Volume
- 342
- Issue
- 6156
- Pages
- 373-377
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- PMC
- PMC3880190
- OpenAlex
- W2163225965
- Semantic Scholar
- 014fa65ae6f6f866bc132c1bcccd045b16432f53
- Cited by
- 5,411
- References
- 47
- Citations by year
- 2026: 656 · 2025: 664 · 2024: 528 · 2023: 541 · 2022: 466 · 2021: 462 · 2020: 457 · 2019: 371 · 2018: 310 · 2017: 308 · 2016: 239 · 2015: 243 · 2014: 142 · 2013: 18
- FWCI
- 116.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Israel Science Foundation
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS078304, NS028642, R01NS078167, R01NS075177, NS078167, R01NS028642, NS078304))
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (R01DE022743)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Clinical Neurology › Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Clinical Neurology › Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
- Keywords
- sleep, cerebrospinal fluid, interstitial fluid, brain waste clearance, amyloid-beta clearance, interstitial space, metabolic homeostasis, anesthesia, two-photon imaging
- MeSH terms
- Quaternary Ammonium Compounds, Animals, Brain, Cerebral Cortex, Cerebrospinal Fluid, Diffusion, Electroencephalography, Extracellular Space, Male, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Receptors, Adrenergic, Sleep, Wakefulness, Amyloid beta-Peptides, Adrenergic Antagonists, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Intracellular Space, Mice
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