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ND-0095 · 2012 · Other

HighAnimal mechanism

A Paravascular Pathway Facilitates CSF Flow Through the Brain Parenchyma and the Clearance of Interstitial Solutes, Including Amyloid beta

Iliff et al. Science Translational Medicine. 2012.

doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.3003748 · Web-verified

What the study found

Established a paravascular pathway supporting exchange of CSF with interstitial fluid and clearance of solutes.

Limitations

Animal physiology; not an environmental or architectural study.

Neurodesign interpretation

This is intellectual infrastructure for later sleep-clearance research, not content evidence for an interior design claim by itself.

Possible design implications

Background mechanism only; no direct design implication.

Why it stays in the corpus

Retain as a foundational glymphatic source.

Study design

In vivo animal imaging

Population

Mice

Setting

Neuroscience laboratory

Field

Sleep neuroscience, neurophysiology

Mechanism

Paravascular CSF-interstitial exchange

Spatial variable

Brain fluid flow

Keywords

glymphatic, CSF, amyloid, paravascular

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