Evidence of the body’s waste system in the human brain

Post by etiam » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 11:41 AM UTC

Flenser wrote: post #37

etiam wrote: post #35

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Kipnis made a mention of this in an interview closer to the actual discovery: 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.…

considering the article also says: Lymphatic vessels are part of the body’s circulatory system. In most of the body they run alongside blood vessels. it's somewhat surprising (in hindsight I admit) that no-one thought to look for them there before.

Post by _jal » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 12:12 PM UTC

Boothroid wrote: post #31

mysterypie wrote: post #29

> the team discovered lymphatic vessels in the dura, the leathery outer coating of the brain Can someone explain why these vessels were never discovered during autopsies until now? Are they too thin, or transparent, or thought to have been something else, or the tubes become squished after death and therefore difficult to separate from other tissue, or what?

I wonder the same thing. Not to be snarky, but is there something faulty about medics or human biologists?! Why do I have a feeling that if we deployed computer scientists at medical research we would get a better result? I can accept that at the lower level things get fiendishly complex, but surely at a macro level like this it's just a case of diligent analysis?

Post by gm-conspiracy » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 12:19 PM UTC

mysterypie wrote: post #29

> the team discovered lymphatic vessels in the dura, the leathery outer coating of the brain Can someone explain why these vessels were never discovered during autopsies until now? Are they too thin, or transparent, or thought to have been something else, or the tubes become squished after death and therefore difficult to separate from other tissue, or what?

Post by kingkawn » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 12:41 PM UTC

lr4444lr wrote: post #41

etiam wrote: post #35

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Kipnis made a mention of this in an interview closer to the actual discovery: 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.…

Then what of the Italian scientist who noted them 200 years ago? All of those dissections and attention to research in the modern age and it was actually taught in medical school that the brain had no lymphatic system? Seems a little far-fetched.

Post by Schizotypy » Wed, Oct 04, 2017, 12:58 PM UTC

k__ wrote: post #13

katastic wrote: post #9

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You guys keep saying that silly myth. They don't have a BRAIN but they have nervous system. A nervous system creates waste and that waste needs to be reclaimed. What's a brain? An exotic collection of neurons... that create waste. http://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2009/05/jellyfish-nervous-syst... >Instead, jellyfish have a ring nervous system, located along the margin of the bell. There is definitely a concentration of…

It could also be that they don't sleep in the sense of humans.