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Brain vessels squeezed to death

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A study finds that contractile cells that surround the capillary vessels of the brain control the blood supply to healthy neurons, and that their death may aggravate brain injury by strangling vessels. See Article p.55

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Figure 1: Cutting off the blood supply to the brain.

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  1. Daniel M. Greif and Anne Eichmann are at the Yale Cardiovascular Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA.,

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  2. A.E. is also in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, and at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, Collège de France, Paris.,

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Greif, D., Eichmann, A. Brain vessels squeezed to death. Nature 508, 50–51 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13217

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