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A Paravascular Pathway Facilitates CSF Flow Through the Brain Parenchyma and the Clearance of Interstitial Solutes, Including Amyloid β
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Cerebrospinal fluid flows through channels around brain blood vessels that are bounded by astrocytic endfeet, mediated by water transport through aquaporin-4.
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“the glymphatic system, a CSF–interstitial fluid transport pathway, supported by perivascular spaces, astrocytic water channels, vascular pulsatility, and meningeal lymphatic drainage, that contributes to waste clearance and fluid homeostasis in the brain (Iliff et al., 2012).”
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“Deletion of AQP4 channels reduces clearance of exogenous Aβ by 65%”
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“The glymphatic system uses the perivascular spaces as low-resistance routes for fast influx of CSF into deep brain regions1.”
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“The glymphatic system is a highly organized, brain-wide network for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) transport that exports protein waste, including amyloid and tau1–3.”
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“Previous animal studies have shown communication between the subarachnoid cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) space and perivascular compartments of the brain (6-10) and spinal cord (11).”
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“In 2012, a brain-wide pathway for convective transport of waste solutes from the brain was first described and denoted the glymphatic system (7).”
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“Impaired glymphatic function has been suggested to be instrumental in a range of brain diseases; this has been illustrated most in Alzheimer's dementia (7, 19, 20) but has also been shown to be relevant in posttraumatic encephalopathy (21), ageing (22), sleep (23, 24), depression (20), and exercise (25).”
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“Moreover, animal studies report diverging findings regarding the sites of perivascular brain influx and efflux and direction of perivascular flow (7, 15, 16).”
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“and may thus be a determining factor for parenchymal tracer enrichment more than clearance, which has rather been proposed to be dependent on convective forces and AQP4 status in the glymphatic system (7).”
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“Clearance of MRI contrast agents, such as gadobutrol, has previously been proposed to potentially resemble clearance of brain macromolecules with similar properties (14), including amyloidβ (7) and tau (21, 66).”
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“For example, studies using injection of fluorescent tracers into cisterna magna of mice have suggested that paravascular circulation occurs via CSF convective flow through the ECS from the para-arterial to the paravenous spaces, which is regulated by AQP4 water channels on astrocytes, and therefore the system was renamed as the 'glymphatic' system (276, 293).”
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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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“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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“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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“This mechanism is how curbing PCSK9 activity provides protection against the vascular aspects of Alzheimer’s pathology [33,77].”
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“Since it is difficult to control when rodents enter natural sleep, anesthesia is commonly used as a proxy for sleep1,24,99,100.”
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“No statistical methods were used to predetermine sample sizes but our sample sizes are similar to those reported in previous publications3,4,12.”
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“The glymphatic system is a highly organized cerebrospinal fluid transport system that shares several key functions with the lymphatic vessels of peripheral tissues, including the export of excess interstitial fluid and proteins”
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“fluid transport through the glymphatic system is directionally polarized, with influx along penetrating arteries, fluid entry into the neuropil supported by AQP4, and efflux along the peri-venous spaces, as well as along the cranial and spinal nerves (24, 32–34).”
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“Deletion of AQP4 channels reduces both the influx of CSF tracers and the efflux of solutes from the neuropil (24, 30, 31).”
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“The polarized expression of the water channel, AQP4, in the vascular endfeet of astrocytes facilitates glymphatic fluid transport and amyloid-ß export in rodents (24, 30)(Fig. 1).”
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“The motion of the brain is locally supplemented by the pulsatility of the penetrating arteries, as they enter the brain from the CSF-filled subarachnoid space, thereby driving CSF into the neuropil along the periarteral spaces (24).”
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“The expression of aquaporin-4 (AQP4) in astrocytes significantly influences the transport and clearance functions of the glymphatic system.155”
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“It has previously been shown that neurotoxic molecules such as amyloid-β and tau are cleared from brain tissue along paravenous pathways (the glymphatic system)20”
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“Molecules from 0.8 to 70 kDa have been shown to penetrate the glia limitans to varying degrees, whereas molecules from 150 to 2000 kDa are confined within the perivascular space (18, 39, 40).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Iliff, J. J., Wang, M., Liao, Y., Plogg, B. A., Peng, W., Gundersen, G. A., Benveniste, H., Vates, G. E., Deane, R., Goldman, S. A., Nagelhus, E. A., & Nedergaard, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Rochester Medicine (US)
- University of Oslo (NO)
- Stony Brook University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Iliff, Jeffrey J.
- Nedergaard, Maiken
- ORCID
- Venue
- Science Translational Medicine
- Published
- 2012-08-15
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 147
- Pages
- 147ra111-147ra111
- ISSN
- 1946-6234 (ISSN-L)
- 1946-6242
- PMC
- PMC3551275
- OpenAlex
- W2167183660
- Cited by
- 5,824
- References
- 56
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- FWCI
- 50.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Science Translational Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS078304, R01NS078167, R01NS075177, R01NS075345, R01NS052534)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Clinical Neurology › Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Ion Transport and Channel Regulation
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Barrier Structure and Function Studies
- Keywords
- cerebrospinal fluid flow, interstitial fluid clearance, amyloid-beta clearance, aquaporin-4, astrocytes, Alzheimer's disease, neurodegeneration
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Astrocytes, Biological Transport, Brain, Cerebral Ventricles, Cerebrospinal Fluid, Male, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Water, Amyloid beta-Peptides, Imaging, Three-Dimensional, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Multiphoton, Extracellular Fluid, Mice, Aquaporin 4
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