大脑如何自我"清洁"
Just as our bodies produce waste every day—which is why we need to shower and use the toilet—our brains produce harmful waste proteins. But how can our brains "shower" themselves?
A 2013 study found the answer. Researchers at the US University of Rochester studied the brains of mice and discovered that they cleaned themselves while the mice slept. A kind of fluid in the brain, called cerebral spinal fluid (CSF), was found to increase dramatically during sleep, washing away waste proteins that had been building up between brain cells in waking hours.
2021-10-19(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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