Electrical 'switch' in brain's capillary network monitors activity and controls blood flow

Saturday, March 25, 2017 - 22:01 in Health & Medicine

New research has uncovered that capillaries have the capacity to both sense brain activity and generate an electrical vasodilatory signal to evoke blood flow and direct nutrients to neurons.

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