Saturday, 27 June 2015

University of Virginia discovers lymphatic vessels in the CNS (including humans')

quote [ This find is the neuroimmunological version of stumbling across a unicorn. Not only had the system gone undiscovered until now, but textbooks argued against its very existence. As a result, neuroimmunologists have struggled to understand the mechanisms of brain drainage and inflammation. ]

Saw this and thought you people might wanna know. Thumb is the guy leading the research.

Link to the article preview in extended.

Link to the Nature article preview is here: link

Any biologists have an educated guess as to what this might mean? Other than what the article states about the potential for better understanding MS, Alzheimer's, autism, etc.?
[SFW] [health] [+6 Interesting]
[by Dissonant@6:19pmGMT]

Comments

mcclint said @ 6:54pm GMT on 27th Jun
Um ok?
Nikan said @ 8:07pm GMT on 27th Jun
Wow. Pretty amazing this could be so hidden for so long.

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