One more
Does your doctor or any doctor
know about
the new lymphatic chart? the answer is NO
On the right is your autoimmune system diagrammed.
I was at 3 hospitals this week in Boston and asked this question
Not one health professional doctor, nurse, PT, OT, etc has heard of this new lymphatic chart!
As to how the brain’s lymphatic vessels managed to escape notice all this time, Kipnis described them as “very well hidden” and noted that they follow a major blood vessel down into the sinuses, an area difficult to image. “It’s so close to the blood vessel, you just miss it,” he said. “If you don’t know what you’re after, you just miss it.”
“Live imaging of these vessels was crucial to demonstrate their function, and it would not be possible without collaboration with Tajie Harris,” Kipnis noted. Harris, a PhD, is an assistant professor of neuroscience and a member of the BIG center. Kipnis also saluted the “phenomenal” surgical skills of Igor Smirnov, a research associate in the Kipnis lab whose work was critical to the imaging success of the study.
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 NEUROSCIENCE NEWSJUNE 1, 2015
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Maps of the lymphatic system: old (left) and updated to reflect UVA’s discovery. Image credit: University of Virginia Health System. |
