Relevant Literature

Reviews

  • Benveniste, H., Lee, H., & Volkow, N. D. (2017). The Glymphatic Pathway: Waste Removal from the CNS via Cerebrospinal Fluid Transport. The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry, 23(5), 454–465. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073858417691030

  • Zhao L, Tannenbaum A, Bakker ENTP, and Benveniste H (2022). Physiology of Glymphatic Solute Transport and Waste Clearance from the Brain. Physiology202237:6,349-362. https://doi.org/10.1152/physiol.00015.2022

  • Davies, J., Siebenhandl-Wolff, P., Tranquart, F. et al. Gadolinium: pharmacokinetics and toxicity in humans and laboratory animals following contrast agent administration. Arch Toxicol 96, 403–429 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-021-03189-8

  • Wardlaw JM, Benveniste H, Nedergaard M, et al. Perivascular spaces in the brain: anatomy, physiology and pathology. Nat Rev Neurol. 2020;16(3):137-153. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-020-0312-z

  • Benveniste, H., Liu, X., Koundal, S., Sanggaard, S., Lee, H., & Wardlaw, J. (2019). The Glymphatic System and Waste Clearance with Brain Aging: A Review. Gerontology, 65(2), 106–119. https://doi.org/10.1159/000490349

Research papers

… focused on human brain clearance imaging

  • Ringstad G, Valnes LM, Dale AM, Pripp AH, Vatnehol SS, Emblem KE, Mardal KA, Eide PK. Brain-wide glymphatic enhancement and clearance in humans assessed with MRI. JCI Insight. 2018 Jul 12;3(13):e121537. doi: https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.121537. PMID: 29997300.

  • Per Kristian Eide, Vegard Vinje, Are Hugo Pripp, Kent-Andre Mardal, Geir Ringstad, Sleep deprivation impairs molecular clearance from the human brain, Brain, Volume 144, Issue 3, March 2021, Pages 863–874, https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaa443

  • Hornkjøl M, Valnes LM, Ringstad G, Rognes ME, Eide PK, Mardal KA, Vinje V. CSF circulation and dispersion yield rapid clearance from intracranial compartments. Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2022 Sep 12;10:932469. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.932469.

  • Zapf B, Haubner J, Kuchta M, Ringstad G, Eide PK, Mardal KA. Investigating molecular transport in the human brain from MRI with physics-informed neural networks. Sci Rep. 2022 Sep 14;12(1):15475. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-19157-w. PMID: 36104360; PMCID: PMC9474534.

  • Fultz NE, Bonmassar G, Setsompop K, Stickgold RA, Rosen BR, Polimeni JR, Lewis LD. Coupled electrophysiological, hemodynamic, and cerebrospinal fluid oscillations in human sleep. Science. 2019 Nov 1;366(6465):628-631. doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax5440. PMID: 31672896.

  • Eide PK, Pripp AH, Berge B, Hrubos-Strøm H, Ringstad G, Valnes LM. Altered glymphatic enhancement of cerebrospinal fluid tracer in individuals with chronic poor sleep quality. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2022 Sep;42(9):1676-1692. doi: 10.1177/0271678X221090747. 

  • Ringstad G, Eide PK. Molecular trans-dural efflux to skull bone marrow in humans with CSF disorders. Brain. 2022 May 24;145(4):1464-1472. doi: 10.1093/brain/awab388.

  • Deike-Hofmann K, Reuter J, Haase R, Paech D, Gnirs R, Bickelhaupt S, Forsting M, Heußel CP, Schlemmer HP, Radbruch A. Glymphatic Pathway of Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents Through the Brain: Overlooked and Misinterpreted. Invest Radiol. 2019 Apr;54(4):229-237. doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/RLI.0000000000000533. PMID: 30480554.

  • Iliff, J. J., Wang, M., Liao, Y., Plogg, B. A., Peng, W., Gundersen, G. A., Benveniste, H., Vates, G. E., Deane, R., Goldman, S. A., Nagelhus, E. A., & Nedergaard, M. (2012). A paravascular pathway facilitates CSF flow through the brain parenchyma and the clearance of interstitial solutes, including amyloid β. Science translational medicine, 4(147), 147ra111. https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.3003748

  • Iliff, J. J., Wang, M., Zeppenfeld, D. M., Venkataraman, A., Plog, B. A., Liao, Y., Deane, R., & Nedergaard, M. (2013). Cerebral arterial pulsation drives paravascular CSF-interstitial fluid exchange in the murine brain. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 33(46), 18190–18199. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1592-13.2013

… focused on fundamental research on brain clearance

  • Kress, B. T., Iliff, J. J., Xia, M., Wang, M., Wei, H. S., Zeppenfeld, D., Xie, L., Kang, H., Xu, Q., Liew, J. A., Plog, B. A., Ding, F., Deane, R., & Nedergaard, M. (2014). Impairment of paravascular clearance pathways in the aging brain. Annals of neurology, 76(6), 845–861. https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.24271

  • Hablitz, L. M., Plá, V., Giannetto, M., Vinitsky, H. S., Stæger, F. F., Metcalfe, T., Nguyen, R., Benrais, A., & Nedergaard, M. (2020). Circadian control of brain glymphatic and lymphatic fluid flow. Nature communications, 11(1), 4411. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18115-2