Microvascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs) and pericytes play fundamental roles in the development and maintenance of the brain's ... dye specifically labels noncontractile vascular mural cells ...

A recent study by researchers at the Mayo Clinic has uncovered critical insights into the vascular changes in the brain linked to Alzheimer's disease. The blood-brain barrier (BBB), a network of ...

A new review paper was published in Aging titled "Peripheral vascular dysfunction and the aging brain." Aging is the greatest ...

Raising neural activity through sensory stimulation resulted in more complex vascular networks. "By demonstrating that neural activity, besides its well-known control of brain blood flow ...

The research has shed light on how high blood pressure causes changes to arteries in the brain ... "Vascular dementia affects around 150,000 people in the UK, and this number is going up. There ...

MINNEAPOLIS – Signs of injury to the brain’s white matter called white matter hyperintensities, as seen on brain scans, may be tied more strongly to vascular ... 59 who had no symptoms ...

The largest brain autopsy study of women who had experienced intimate partner violence reveals substantial vascular and white matter damage in the brain, but no evidence of chronic traumatic ...

In fact, associations between vascular health and late-life brain atrophy were stronger at 36 than they were later in mid-life. Importantly, at no age did a person’s vascular health correlate with his ...

Using ultrasound guidance, researchers successfully repaired a potentially deadly vascular malformation, called vein of Galen malformation, deep in the brain of a fetus before birth. The malformation, ...