A popular hypothesis for how the brain clears molecular waste, which may help explain why sleep feels refreshing, is a subject of debate. Encased in the skull, perched atop the spine, the brain has a ...

Twenty-four of 25 patients with bacterial meningitis and nine of 11 with CNS viral infection had increased LDH activity in the CSF. The mean levels were 112.8 units per milliliter in bacterial, 193 ...

Placement of an external ventricular drain (EVD) allows cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to drain from the ventricles to an external collecting system. The main advantage of an EVD over a device that ...

‌Protein appears in nearly all body tissues, along with your enzymes, blood, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Healthy CSF has a low amount of protein.‌ If you show symptoms of an infection or nervous ...

The brain rinses away Aβ during sleep, powered by glymphatic flow from arteries to veins. In today’s Journal of Experimental Medicine, researchers led by Takeshi Iwatsubo at the University of Tokyo ...

Eisai Co.,Ltd. announced its latest research on evaluation about correlation of amyloid beta (Abeta) in plasma and in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) by high precision measurement with the newly developed ...