ChrisChrisW/iStock / Getty Images Plus In their study, Stefanovska and her colleagues focused on the "neurovascular unit"—a complex structure in the brain that regulates blood flow in order to ...

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The "neurovascular unit" (NVU) consists of vasculature connected via brain cells called astrocytes to neurons and ensures that this cooperation is successful. To assess the function of the NVU ...

False-coloured transmission electron micrograph of a neurovascular unit in a mouse brain capillary. The neurovascular unit is a building block of the blood brain barrier, which is a protective layer ...

Scientists examined changes in the brain’s neurovascular unit - which consists of blood vessels connected to neurons via brain cells called astrocytes - in people with the brain robbing condition.

We are also a member of both the Neuroscience Institute and Healthy Lifespan Institute. We investigate neurovascular coupling (the relationship between neural activity and subsequent brain blood flow ...