Gabor A Fulop, Stefano Tarantini, Andriy Yabluchanskiy, Andrea Molnar, Calin I Prodan, Tamas Kiss, Tamas Csipo, Agnes Lipecz, Priya Balasubramanian, Eszter Farkas, Peter Toth, Farzaneh Sorond, Anna Csiszar, Zoltan Ungvari
There has been an increasing appreciation of the role of vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) associated with old age. Strong preclinical and translational evidence links age-related dysfunction and structural alterations of the cerebral arteries, arterioles, and capillaries to the pathogenesis of many types of dementia in the elderly, including Alzheimer's disease. The low-pressure, low-velocity, and large-volume venous circulation of the brain also plays critical roles in the maintenance of homeostasis in the central nervous system...
May 1, 2019: American Journal of Physiology. Heart and Circulatory Physiology