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  • Neuroscience
  • Vascular Biology
  • Neurodegenerative Diseases

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  • Behavioral activity significantly influences cerebral blood flow dynamics.
  • Understanding the neurovascular unit's role in health and disease, particularly neurodegeneration, is crucial.
  • Investigating vascular network components within and around the brain is vital.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To characterize locomotion-induced hemodynamic responses across different vascular compartments in the mouse whisker barrel cortex.
  • To compare these responses in wild-type mice versus models of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and atherosclerosis.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized 2D-OIS to record hemodynamic responses during locomotion in awake mice (9-12 months old).
  • Analyzed responses in pial arteries and veins within the whisker barrel region (WBR), draining veins, and meningeal vessels.
  • Included wild-type, AD, atherosclerosis, and mixed (atherosclerosis/AD) mouse models.

Main Results:

  • Locomotion initially decreased total hemoglobin (HbT) in draining veins before increasing HbT in WBR vessels.
  • Locomotion event size affected WBR pial vessel HbT increase but not the early draining vein HbT decrease.
  • Meningeal vessels showed an early HbT decrease post-locomotion, not exceeding baseline.
  • Locomotion-induced hemodynamic responses were altered in disease models within the draining vein and whisker artery.

Conclusions:

  • An initial HbT reduction in draining and meningeal veins may facilitate large cortical HbT increases during locomotion.
  • This "space-saving" mechanism is impacted by neurodegenerative diseases.
  • Altered vascular responses in disease suggest potential biomarkers and targets for vascular-based therapies.