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MS: how do immune cells enter the cerebrospinal fluid and what is their function there?

Scientists at the University Medical Center Göttingen find out that immune cells move back and forth between the cerebrospinal fluid and the nervous tissue. This trafficking is regulated by scavenger ...
eLife

PKD2L1 channels segregated to the apical compartment are the exclusive dual-mode pH sensor in cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons

This is an important study on the sensory roles of Cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons (CBF-cn) in mammals. The authors identify PKD2L1 as the predominant pH-sensing channel CBF-cn and show how the ...
technologynetworks

Deep Sleep Supports Memory via Brain Fluid Signals

Researchers led by Masako Tamaki at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan report a link between deep sleep and cerebrospinal fluid, the clear liquid that surrounds and supports the brain and ...
CNN

Woman’s runny nose was actually fluid from inside her brain

For the past two years, 52-year-old Kendra Jackson of Omaha, Nebraska just thought she had a bad cold. “When it first started out, I just thought it was my allergies or a runny nose – like the ...