Wednesday, August 20, 2025

The brain drain puts aging myelin in deep trouble

 

Your competent? doctor has known of the myelin problem post stroke and already created protocols to fix that, right? Oh no, you DON'T have a functioning stroke doctor, do you? RUN AWAY!

The brain drain puts aging myelin in deep trouble


In this issue, Stamenkovic et al. describe deep in vivo imaging of the brain vasculature to document its evolution during aging, which identifies a unique vulnerability at the site of convergence of capillaries toward major veins. They propose that pericyte and capillary instability there cause mild hypoperfusion, ultimately leading to myelin degradation.

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