The science of stroke: mechanisms in search of treatments

MA Moskowitz, EH Lo, C Iadecola - Neuron, 2010 - cell.com
This review focuses on mechanisms and emerging concepts that drive the science of stroke
in a therapeutic direction. Once considered exclusively a disorder of blood vessels, growing …

Plasticity during stroke recovery: from synapse to behaviour

TH Murphy, D Corbett - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2009 - nature.com
Reductions in blood flow to the brain of sufficient duration and extent lead to stroke, which
results in damage to neuronal networks and the impairment of sensation, movement or …

Capillary pericytes regulate cerebral blood flow in health and disease

CN Hall, C Reynell, B Gesslein, NB Hamilton, A Mishra… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Increases in brain blood flow, evoked by neuronal activity, power neural computation and
form the basis of BOLD (blood-oxygen-level-dependent) functional imaging. Whether blood …

Stepwise recruitment of transcellular and paracellular pathways underlies blood-brain barrier breakdown in stroke

D Knowland, A Arac, KJ Sekiguchi, M Hsu, SE Lutz… - Neuron, 2014 - cell.com
Brain endothelial cells form a paracellular and transcellular barrier to many blood-borne
solutes via tight junctions (TJs) and scarce endocytotic vesicles. The blood-brain barrier …

The cortical angiome: an interconnected vascular network with noncolumnar patterns of blood flow

P Blinder, PS Tsai, JP Kaufhold, PM Knutsen… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
What is the nature of the vascular architecture in the cortex that allows the brain to meet the
energy demands of neuronal computations? We used high-throughput histology to …

3D transcranial ultrasound localization microscopy in the rat brain with a multiplexed matrix probe

A Chavignon, B Heiles, V Hingot… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) provides images of the
microcirculation in-depth in living tissue. However, its implementation in two-dimension is …

Cerebrovascular smooth muscle cells as the drivers of intramural periarterial drainage of the brain

R Aldea, RO Weller, DM Wilcock, RO Carare… - Frontiers in aging …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The human brain is the organ with the highest metabolic activity but it lacks a traditional
lymphatic system responsible for clearing waste products. We have demonstrated that the …

In Vivo Tumor Targeting and Image-Guided Drug Delivery with Antibody-Conjugated, Radiolabeled Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles

F Chen, H Hong, Y Zhang, HF Valdovinos, S Shi… - ACS …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Since the first use of biocompatible mesoporous silica (mSiO2) nanoparticles as drug
delivery vehicles, in vivo tumor targeted imaging and enhanced anticancer drug delivery has …

Two-photon microscopy as a tool to study blood flow and neurovascular coupling in the rodent brain

AY Shih, JD Driscoll, PJ Drew… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
The cerebral vascular system services the constant demand for energy during neuronal
activity in the brain. Attempts to delineate the logic of neurovascular coupling have been …

Principles of two-photon excitation microscopy and its applications to neuroscience

K Svoboda, R Yasuda - Neuron, 2006 - cell.com
The brain is complex and dynamic. The spatial scales of interest to the neurobiologist range
from individual synapses (∼ 1 μm) to neural circuits (centimeters); the timescales range from …