Cerebral Arterial Pulsation Drives Paravascular CSF–Interstitial Fluid Exchange in the Murine Brain
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- 13 November 2013
- journal article
- Published by Society for Neuroscience in Journal of Neuroscience
- Vol. 33 (46), 18190-18199
- https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1592-13.2013
Abstract
CSF from the subarachnoid space moves rapidly into the brain along paravascular routes surrounding penetrating cerebral arteries, exchanging with brain interstitial fluid (ISF) and facilitating the clearance of interstitial solutes, such as amyloid β, in a pathway that we have termed the “glymphatic” system. Prior reports have suggested that paravascular bulk flow of CSF or ISF may be driven by arterial pulsation. However, cerebral arterial pulsation could not be directly assessed. In the present study, we usein vivotwo-photon microscopy in mice to visualize vascular wall pulsatility in penetrating intracortical arteries. We observed that unilateral ligation of the internal carotid artery significantly reduced arterial pulsatility by ∼50%, while systemic administration of the adrenergic agonist dobutamine increased pulsatility of penetrating arteries by ∼60%. When paravascular CSF–ISF exchange was evaluated in real time usingin vivotwo-photon andex vivofluorescence imaging, we observed that internal carotid artery ligation slowed the rate of paravascular CSF–ISF exchange, while dobutamine increased the rate of paravascular CSF–ISF exchange. These findings demonstrate that cerebral arterial pulsatility is a key driver of paravascular CSF influx into and through the brain parenchyma, and suggest that changes in arterial pulsatility may contribute to accumulation and deposition of toxic solutes, including amyloid β, in the aging brain.Keywords
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