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ArticleAnnual review of fluid mechanics2023

Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow.

Douglas H Kelley, John H Thomas

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Article in Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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60 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Douglas H KelleyDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA.
John H ThomasDepartment of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA.

Funding

Viral Tool Development Core: Visualization and manipulation of brain fluid dynamics by recombinant viral vectorsU19NS128613 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI Maiken Nedergaard · 2022 to 2026
$13.6M
Age and AD related bottlenecks in glymphatic-lymphatic waste transportRF1AG057575 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI NEDERGAARD, MAIKEN · 2017 to 2017
$3.2M
CRCNS: Waste-clearance flows in the brain measured using physics-informed neural networkR01AT012312 · NCCIH · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI Douglas H Kelley · 2022 to 2026
$1.6M
Glymphatic function in a transgenic rat model of Alzheimer's diseaseR01AG048769 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI BENVENISTE, HELENE D, NEDERGAARD, MAIKEN · 2014 to 2018
$1.4M
NCCIH NIH HHS R01 AT012312NIA NIH HHS R01 AG048769NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG057575NINDS NIH HHS U19 NS128613
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Circulation of cerebrospinal fluid and interstitial fluid around the central nervous system and through the brain transports not only those water-like fluids but also any solutes they carry, including nutrients, drugs, and metabolic wastes. Passing through brain tissue primarily during sleep, this circulation has implications for neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's disease, for tissue damage during stroke and cardiac arrest, and for flow-related disorders such as hydrocephalus and syringomyelia. Recent experimental results reveal several features of this flow, but other aspects are not fully understood, including its driving mechanisms. We review the experimental evidence and theoretical modeling of cerebrospinal fluid flow, including the roles of advection and diffusion in transporting solutes. We discuss both local, detailed fluid-dynamic models of specific components of the system and global hydraulic models of the overall network of flow paths.

Indexed as

biological fluid mechanicscerebrospinal fluidglymphatic systemviscous flow

Identifiers

PMID39691763
PMCPMC11651633

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