(Medical University of South Carolina) In a January 2, 2018 article in Cell Reports, researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina report that pericytes, a little-understood cell type on the brain's blood vessels, grow into the empty territory left behind when their neighboring pericytes die. Their findings, made possible by advanced imaging of living pericytes, may help scientists better understand how blood vessel plasticity in the brain changes with common disorders, such as stroke and Alzheimer's disease.
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