India, Dec. 5 -- Scientists from Monash University are partnering with colleagues at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., to develop a new, high-tech approach for treating ischemic stroke by enhancing removal of toxic waste products from the brain.
The "brain-draining lymphatics" are a set of drainage pathways that clear waste from the brain, with dysfunction of this "clean-up and drainage network" linked to Alzheimer's disease and other neurological and neurodegenerative diseases (NNDs).
The work is being done in collaboration with faculty at Yale School of Medicine, includingAnne Eichmann, PhD,Lindsay McAlpine, MD, andJean-Leon Thomas, PhD.
It was the Yale team whooriginally foundthat improving brain-draining lymphatic func...