{"id":224315,"date":"2025-10-31T06:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/previously-unrecognized-hub-in-the-brains-lymphatic-drainage-system-may-assist-with-clearing-waste"},"modified":"2025-10-31T06:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:31:09","slug":"previously-unrecognized-hub-in-the-brains-lymphatic-drainage-system-may-assist-with-clearing-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/previously-unrecognized-hub-in-the-brains-lymphatic-drainage-system-may-assist-with-clearing-waste","title":{"rendered":"Previously unrecognized hub in the brain\u2019s lymphatic drainage system may assist with clearing waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/previously-unrecognized-hub-in-the-brains-lymphatic-drainage-system-may-assist-with-clearing-waste.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How does the brain take out its trash? That is the job of the brain\u2019s lymphatic drainage system, and efforts to understand how it works have pushed the boundaries of brain-imaging technologies.<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2589004225019546\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> in <i>iScience<\/i> by researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina reveals\u2014for the first time in humans\u2014evidence of a previously unrecognized hub in the brain\u2019s lymphatic drainage system\u2014the middle meningeal artery (MMA).<\/p>\n<p>Taking advantage of a NASA partnership that provided access to real-time MRI technologies originally developed to study how spaceflight affects <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/fluid+dynamics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fluid dynamics<\/a> in the human brain, the MUSC research team, led by Onder Albayram, Ph.D., tracked cerebrospinal and interstitial fluid flow along the MMA in five healthy participants over a six-hour period. They found that the drainage flow of the cerebrospinal fluid was passive, suggesting lymphatic rather than blood flow. Blood would have had a faster, more dynamic flow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does the brain take out its trash? That is the job of the brain\u2019s lymphatic drainage system, and efforts to understand how it works have pushed the boundaries of brain-imaging technologies. A new study in iScience by researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina reveals\u2014for the first time in humans\u2014evidence of a previously [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}