In Alzheimer’s disease, blood flows sluggishly through the brain, partly because Aβ provokes small blood vessels to constrict. In the June 20 Science, researchers led by David Attwell at University ...

Pericytes, the multifunctional cells that work within the walls of capillaries, have been a subject of focus in the study of vascular development, cerebral blood flow, cancer, and neurodevelopment ...

Researchers have built a 3D human blood-brain barrier in the lab and discovered a key role of brain pericytes in cerebral malaria disease Cerebral malaria is a deadly complication of Plasmodium ...

Leiden researchers found a way to measure the tiny forces exerted by pericytes, one of the most elusive, hard to research cell types, which occur in tiny blood vessels. Building on this fundamental ...

Loss of pericytes, delicate cells that surround the smallest blood vessels in the brain, may contribute to white-matter disease, a breakdown of the myelinated neurons in the brain. That’s according to ...

Discovering the role of pericytes in the blood-retinal barrier suggesting pathogenetic insights into diabetic retinopathy, outlines a new report. Inside the eye, at the interface between blood vessels ...

Pericytes are a type of cells found in the brain's blood vessels. Using advanced imaging technique, it was found that these cells grow even in the empty spaces when the pericytes die, reveals a new ...

USC researchers have discovered a secret sauce in the brain's vascular system that preserves the neurons needed to keep dementia and other diseases at bay. The finding, in a mouse model of the human ...

Extended periods of limb immobilization -- whether from long-term bed rest, casting, spaceflight, or other circumstances -- can reduce skeletal muscle mass and strength to the extent that recovery is ...

A team of scientists from the United States has recently conducted a study using pericyte-like cell-containing brain cortical organoids as an experimental model to investigate the impact of severe ...

Versatile cells in blood vessels grow easily and differentiate readily into some tissues. Examples of developmentally flexible cells have poured forth recently: cells from amniotic fluid and placenta, ...

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